Waging WOKE Warfare Across the United States Takes a Major Hit

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Not only do America’s children not want male freaks in dresses terrorising them but they do not want those freaks lecturing to them from the huge podium Disney’s movies offer them.

 Though Russian President Putin has compared NATO’s WOKE madness to the early years of the Soviet Union under Bolshevism, he doesn’t know the half of it. Though the WOKE lunatics long ago took over the NATO asylum, current indications are they have pushed their luck and their trans fascism madness too far. There is, in American hillbilly-land, the mother of all push-backs against those WOKE companies BlackRock, Vanguard and NATO’s other middle management have used as the shock troops of their Satanic campaign.

Though I will later get to the theory and practice of Satanism, I must first describe the backlash against “story creator” Disney, clothes retailer Target and beer maker Anheuser-Busch, all of whom have surrendered their sovereignty to BlackRock’s warped stakeholder ideology. As previously explained here and here, these NATO’s companies have been shoving BlackRock’s warped WOKE ideology down the throats not only of their customers but of their customers’ children as well. And both of those stakeholders have had a gut full.

On the one side we have Russia’s Masha and the Bear, which is hilarious, all the more so if you are in the target age range for this series of cartoons and which Disney catered for when it first got off the ground with Mickey Mouse, Snow White and Donald Duck in the early 1930s. Today, their male employees wear dresses to freak out the kids and their movies tank at the box office. Children, as Walt Disney knew, want to laugh along with Masha and the Bear, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, simple cartoons with simple plot lines. Not only do America’s children not want male freaks in dresses terrorising them but they do not want those freaks lecturing to them from the huge podium Disney’s movies offer them.

And nor do their furious parents, who are not only expressing their anger by boycotting Disney but who have also gone on the offensive against Target and made them withdraw their lines of baby clothing, which came complete with penis tucks and plastic penis attachments for toddlers. To say that a hurricane hit Target’s grooming campaign would be an understatement. The ordinary Yanks tore Target to shreds and their boycott wiped billions off its share price.

As they did with Anheuser-Busch, who hired transsexual grifter Dylan Mulvaney to market their beer to those truck-driving, Country and Western music-loving, baseball-playing, shotgun-carrying lumberjacks and World Wide Wrestling fans. It didn’t work and, by all accounts, you can hardly give away their Bud Light beer to any of their God-fearing, blue-collar customer base, who are out for corporate blood.

Although much could be said about the types of American Homer Simpsons, Family Guys, soccer moms and sundry couch potatoes, who are hitting back against all this nonsense, my focus is more on the utter contempt those WOKE companies have shown the ordinary American. Although this coordinated attack is much bigger than the three companies I have singled out, they are important as Disney, Target and Anheuser-Busch are all in the business of catering to their core audiences and, of course, turning a profit for their stakeholders on tried and trusted maxims I spent many years lecturing on.

But those days are gone and so too is the Japanese idea of stakeholder capitalism where a company, Toyota for example, would develop long-term relationships with its suppliers so that both might benefit over time.

NATO’s new capitalism is a different sort, where folk like George Soros and BlackRock’s Larry Fink decide what Disney will show, what Target will sell and which Blackfaces will get to market Anheuser-Busch beer (and women’s tampons and sports’ bras).

The reason corporate America is cutting its own throat, as this excellent twitter thread explains, is because of the WOKE credit score, which ensures BlackRock, Fink and Soros dictate not only what Target, Disney and the others market but why, using their fig leaf of inclusiveness, even individual schools must allow males into female toilets.

Although young American school girls do not want to be raped in their schools’ toilets, that is of no consequence to BlackRock’s Larry Fink, who tells us at 20 minutes into this video that they are “forcing behaviours” like that before going on to tell us at 21:30 in the same video, “behaviours across the whole firm, in every region have to be similar and every citizen of the firm has to understand what is acceptable behaviours and what are unacceptable behaviours”, WOKE behaviours which he and his fellow-freaks will presumably agree on before allowing vulnerable schoolgirls reap the collateral damage of their Satanic arrogance.

Although the video goes on to cite Fink at 22:00 saying that “it is through effective stakeholder capitalism that capital is effectively allocated, companies achieve durable profitability, and value is created and sustained over the long-term”, that is so wrong that countless books have been written on it. American companies are not focused on the long-term; they are focused on quarterly earnings and that can be seen in how the companies in the S&P 500 have changed so much over time. There is no long-term profitability durability there and companies like BlackRock, who do not even understand their own core mission or the fiduciary nature of their business will not change that.

BlackRock’s business is to be a responsible shareholder and not to insist that males in dresses can terrify children at Disney or go take a leak in the girls’ rest-room. BlackRock’s business is to be a passive investor and to only intervene when companies like Disney, Target and Anheuser-Busch they are invested in make major strategic blunders, the sort of blunders BlackRock, with their own nefarious agenda, are now insisting they commit.

Carrying on in the same video, Fink goes on to say at 22:35 “If you do not lean towards decarbonisation, you are not going to win one euro of business”. In other words, it is his way or oblivion, irrespective of whether you are right or wrong, or whether you are delivering shareholder value or not, or whether you err on the side of conservative caution, having seen behemoths fail in the past because of the sort of ill-informed arrogance Fink displays.

There is, in corporate finance, a basic maxim that old and dirty beats new and clean, that old machinery or practices should not be replaced by newer ones until it is profitable to do so. Because BlackRock and the World Economic Forum disagree, they are forcing Dutch farmers, Europe’s most efficient, off the land in droves, much as the English cleansed Scotland during the Highland Clearances. If Dutch farmers cannot survive, nor can any others. Crazy as that sounds, that is what Fink, Soros and other champions of Disney’s male chaperones bedecking themselves in frilly dresses want.

The same video goes on to show how Disney is going out of business as some black female Disney hot shot tells us at 24:20 that she used every opportunity she could to intrude “queerness” into her movies and thereby inflict it on children and their parents, who would much prefer Masha, Snow White and Mickey Mouse to her boring, biased and half-baked sermons. Heaven help Masha and Mishka if that overpaid sociopath gets her hands on them.

But make no mistake. That is their mission, for whatever concoction of reasons, to pervert everything that is good, wholesome or just plain childishly funny and innocent. Although this thread claims that Target have ordered the deconstruction of their Groomer, Child Sex Cult and Penis Tuck Swimsuits and Satanic “Pride” section across all its stores, that is barely a skirmish in this culture war which stretches all the way from the United States through Ukraine where Fink and Soros are also up to their Satanic mischief and right up to the Russian forests Masha, Mishka and their pals chill out in. It is all Satanic beyond measure.

The basic problem is that Satanists, to use that word loosely, have their hands on the reins of society. As someone who has had to deal with actual devil-worshipping Satanists in the past, I would break them down into a number of sub-sections. The first of these is those just along for the ride, who want to have sex with children or who or whatever else takes their fancy. They are the foot-soldiers, there to groom and be groomed by the mini-Epsteins further up the corporate ladder. The next are the middle management, the Adolf Eichmanns and Jeffrey Epsteins of the Woke Reich who will, as Fink hints, ensure all stakeholders play for Team Satan and the last group are those true believers, command staff like Fink and Soros, who believe it is “better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven”.

We have been down similar roads before, the Third Reich being the most obvious of them. And, as with the Third Reich, it matters not a whit what Soros, Hitler, Himmler, Biden or Fink believe in and, Christ knows, Hitler’s inner circle had the oddest and most eclectic of beliefs underwriting their authoritarianism and history testifies to how that played out. Fink and Soros are as authoritarian as Hitler and we are seeing, from America to Ukraine, how that is playing out and what resistance there is to it.

It matters not in the least if Soros, Fink and their footsoldiers worship Satan or if Satan even exists. What matters is how they act is Satanic; it is not only from the dark but it fosters the dark against the light. And that must be resisted to the death,

Childhood should, of course, bloom in the light and should be more akin to heaven than it is to Epstein’s hell and those who interact with children should, irrespective of the existence or otherwise of heaven or hell, be angels of the light rather than angels of the darkness. Because of that Putin, along with America’s anti-WOKE army, is right to advocate, as he puts it, “a healthy conservatism”. And though that healthy conservatism should be our common default position, it must be fought for, not only against Disney, Target and Anheuser-Busch but all the more so against Fink, Soros and all their WOKE willing executions in academia, in schools, in the media, in Wall Street, in Capitol Hill, in the White House and anywhere and everywhere else they spread their toxins.

Article By Declan Hayes

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Humanity at a Crossroads: Cooperation or Extinction?

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If humanity is morally fit to survive the current storm, it will be due to the rectification of the fallacious rules underlying today’s geopolitics.

We hold in our hands vast power to both create and destroy the likes of which has never been seen in history.

Up until the turn of the 20th century, the only forces capable of wrecking extinction-level havoc onto the biosphere remained comets and asteroids travelling 18 km/second which periodically slammed into the earth every few million years. But with the discovery of atomic decay in the form of fission and also the associated processes of fusion (where lighter isotopes were found to fuse together forming heavier atoms holding masses that were slightly less than the total of the fused atoms), suddenly a new force of destruction was added to the list.

After the death of Franklin Roosevelt, the top secret Manhattan Project with its three nuclear bombs was revealed to a confused Harry Truman who was quick to dump two of them onto a defeated Japan in 1945 establishing a new set of geopolitical rules that would profoundly misshape the 20th century.

The 14 kiloton bomb “Little Boy” which erupted over Hiroshima killed 140 thousand people instantly, with countless tens of thousands more who died in agony during the weeks and months following the explosion. The bomb that destroyed Nagasaki days later was 23 kilotons.

To put this into perspective, one modern U.S. Ohio Class Submarine travelling in the waters of China’s back yard carries 24 Trident missiles.

Each Trident missile can carry up to 8 nuclear warheads and each warhead utilizing thermonuclear technology packs the equivalent of 475 kilotons of TNT. When all warheads contained on one Trident II missile are added together, a force 253 times more powerful than the bomb that annihilated Hiroshima is unleashed. Although nuclear reduction treaties established since 1991 have reduced the global nuclear stockpiles from 64,000 warheads in 1986 to approximately 20,000 today, the fact Is that over 5000 megatons of nuclear bombs ready to be unleashed still litter the face of the earth.

Throughout the Cold War, scientists on both sides of the iron curtain were directed increasingly to put their creative energy towards the development of ever greater atomic weapons rather than solve world problems which for the most part was always the true purpose of science.

When the MAD doctrine (and a few too many war hawks devoted to computer models instead of human thinking) propelled the world towards a nuclear showdown in October 1962, cooler heads thankfully prevailed. During this period, mature statecraft took the form of backchannel and public dialogue between John F Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev who agreed upon respecting each others’ security interests with Russia removing its nuclear weapons from Cuba and the U.S.A following suite by removing their nuclear weapons from Turkey soon thereafter.

With this dance with mass death, Kennedy created several precedents for future leaders to learn from starting with the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963, his call to pull the U.S.A out of an oncoming Vietnam quagmire and launching a beautiful vision for U.S.-Russian joint space program presented to the UN General Assembly in New York on September 20 1963. This was an offer which Khrushchev’s son admitted his father had wished to accept during a 1997 interview, but sadly assassins’ bullets and Cold Warriors devoid of wisdom got in the way of that vision.

We are now sitting on the cusp of the 60th anniversary of the October Crisis and sadly very few statesmen in today’s U.S.A think on the strategic level of President Kennedy.

NATO has continued to expand across Russia’s soft underbelly in total renunciation of the promises made in 1991 between U.S. delegations and their Russian counterparts. With each new member added to NATO since 1998, a policy of military containment of Russia has been advanced with ever more troops, anti-ballistic missiles and bases installed across former Soviet Nations.

To stop the race towards nuclear annihilation now unfolding over the chaos in Ukraine, it is absolutely requisite that the leadership of the U.S.A and Russia conduct emergency meetings immediately with the intention of resolving the danger of nuclear extinction once and for all.

The way forward is not as difficult and only requires a willingness to compromise on certain actions which have no benefit to anyone. At the top of this list is the need to flush the strange obsession to expand NATO to the detriment of Russian security interests.

If this simple act were accomplished, then getting Russia to extract itself militarily from Ukraine would be no small difficulty.

Beyond simply putting out the immediate fires threatening to engulf our collective home, a longer term plan to avoid future fires from taking hold is also necessary. To this end, cooperation on matters of common interest is vital to establish a new security architecture founded upon firm principles. This means seeking out projects that unite the goals of eastern and western blocks into a common destiny, rather than amplifying divisions of “us” vs “them” with “good guys” invited to democracy summits which exclude nearly half of the worlds’ population.

Like Kennedy’s promotion of U.S.A-Russian scientific cooperation on space development and atomic development, today’s statesmen must discuss such programs as Asteroid Defense (dubbed by Roscosmos’ Dimitry Rogozin as “Strategic Defense of Earth” in 2011), Arctic Development, Bering Strait rail development, and re-forestation of the earth for starters. The Chinese (who are facing no shortage of threats to their security in the Pacific theater) have recently offered the Trans-Atlantic Community the chance to work together on the Belt and Road Initiative which could only benefit humanity as the BRI has already pulled hundreds of millions of souls out of poverty.

What makes these positive steps towards a sustainable global security doctrine so attractive is that they involve re-orienting nuclear science from the perverse path of self-destruction towards the path of creation which this beautiful field of research was always destined to be. The peaceful use of atomic power both in advanced fission reactors, atomic medicine and the long-overdue holy grail of fusion energy provides humanity the master key to do what no other species has been able to do: Break an extinction cycle and end the “four horsemen” of famines, war, disease and ignorance that have plagued humanity since time immemorial.

If humanity is morally fit to survive the current storm, it will be due to the rectification of those fallacious rules underlying geopolitics as have been practiced throughout recent history. Rule by “might makes right” which shaped the pre-nuclear era must finally come to an end, as a new age of “right makes might” must finally be permitted to have its chance in the sun.

“A war today or tomorrow, if it led to nuclear war, would not be like any war in history. A full-scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes, with the weapons now in existence, could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere. And the survivors, as Chairman Khrushchev warned the Communist Chinese, “the survivors would envy the dead.” For they would inherit a world so devastated by explosions and poison and fire that today we cannot even conceive of its horrors. So let us try to turn the world away from war. Let us make the most of this opportunity, and every opportunity, to reduce tension, to slow down the perilous nuclear arms race, and to check the world’s slide toward final annihilation.”

Article By Matthew EHRET

There Is a Limit to the Tyrant’s Power: Ottawa Freedom Convoy Tears Down Illusion of Democracy in North America

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Tyrants living in their ivory tower echo chambers are panicking as they have no idea how to interact with actual human beings organizing themselves around such non-mathematical principles as “freedom”, “justice” and “rights”.

No, there is a limit to the tyrant’s power!
When the oppressed man finds no justice,
When the burden grows unbearable, he appeals
With fearless heart to Heaven,
And thence brings down his everlasting rights,
Which there abide, inalienably his,
And indestructible as stars themselves.

-Friedrich Schiller, Wilhelm Tell’s Rutli Oath

Who would have thought that Canada would ever be a spark plug for a freedom movement against tyranny?

The Secret Document of Pfizer: A Blueprint to Genocide?

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The Secret Document of Pfizer: Journalist Celia Farber just wrote an explosive article on The Secret Document of Pfizer. You should read it. She deserves our thanks and gratitude.In short, the Pfizer document (which was never supposed to see the light of day but was disclosed as part of a FOIA suit) describes the adverse effects from just the first three months of injections with the company’s COVID vaccine:

158,000 adverse events, 1223 deaths. In a half-sane world, this would have been more than enough to halt all injections and cancel the vaccine.

Yet here we are 20 months later still pumping out vaccines that in my opinion are causing more hare than good. Where are we headed with this, and where will it end? Hopefully all those who are a part of this experimental program will one day be held accountable for the atrocities they have commited on the human population!

"Sad Little Man" by Five Times August (Official Music Video) 2021

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A Parody? I think not. Why this evil man is still in the public eye is a mystery to many of us.

Dr. Theresa Tam in 2010: “You could track people, put bracelets on their...

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Looks like they knew back in 2010 how it was all going to play out.

Governments Don't Want You To Know ALL The Facts

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Tom MacDonald - "Clown World"

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THE NEW NORMAL feat. Felipe & T.Y. 🇨🇦 (CANADA)

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COVID The Political Pandemic

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Public health officials are in charge and normal life is forbidden!

Canadians are entering the thirteenth month of government restrictions that are managing and dictating every aspect of our lives—the thirteenth month of daily and ongoing violations of our human rights and fundamental freedoms. It is no longer innocent until proven guilty, it is sick until proven healthy.

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Pundits claim a new Michael Moore-produced documentary that takes aim at the supposed hypocrisy of the green movement is “dangerous, misleading and destructive” and should be removed from public viewing. This according to an assortment of climate scientists and environmental campaigners.

The film, Planet of the Humans, was released on the eve of Earth Day last week by its producer, Michael Moore, the baseball cap-wearing documentarian known for Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine. Describing itself as a “full-frontal assault on our sacred cows”, the film argues that electric cars and solar energy are unreliable and rely upon fossil fuels to function. It also attacks figures including Al Gore for bolstering corporations that push flawed technologies over real solutions to the climate crisis.

Planet of the Humans has provoked a furious reaction from scientists and campaigners, however, who have called for it be taken down. Films for Action, an online library of videos, temporarily took down the film after describing it as “full of misinformation”, though they later reinstated it, saying they did not want accusations of censorship to give the film “more power and mystique than it deserves”.

Analyzing Facebook’s Data Collection

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Starting with the new “LIKE” bar, Facebook has now become a treasure trove of data for law enforcement and government agencies alike to monitor and spy on it’s citizens around the globe. It has largely become more of a powerful tool used to collect and analyze  users input, instead of the social platform on which it was founded.  Through the use of  other so called “apps”, we can gain a significant insight about the data being collected and how much of a profiling tool Facebook has now become.

Who has access to all this information and what they may use it for should be of concern to everyone!  Are they telling us the truth about why and how they collect our data? Is our personal and private data being sold to the highest bidder?  Is all of our online information really safe as they would have us believe?

Data collection is the process of gathering and measuring information on targeted variables in an established systematic fashion, which then enables one to answer relevant questions and evaluate outcomes.

With the introduction of the new “Like” bar, Facebook may now know and record your thoughts and feelings over any given situation. It is now much easier to see and determine if the user is happy, sad, in love, is in awe, or even angry to any event, comment or post. Over the course of time this helps Facebook to build a better understanding of the users thoughts, and or reactions to a particular event or post. The more one interacts with Facebook, the more complete the profiling becomes. Thus Facebook has become a valuable tool for all law enforcement agencies, regardless if the users intent is criminal or not. It can tell the Government many different aspects of a persons character, giving them advanced notice as to how that person may react in a given situation. 

Your current “Status” may also reveal a lot of information on your current dealings or feelings, along with the time and date. You may tag people, offer up a photo, which in itself may be revealing the location and date. You can enter a “Life Event” or any other “Special Events”, or you may “Check In” telling others your whereabouts at any given time. Your activity feed then keeps track of it all, detailing all of your input and interactions across Facebook, and may be sharing this information with anyone else who may have access.

Further profiling may be obtained through the use of “third party” apps, or sites which many users find to be amusing, yet these so called apps cast suspicion on their true purpose. One such site, Nametests.com, boasts that it is a free, fun application offering free fun quizzes and online humor. Simply by placing a small ad asking, “What makes you angry?” If clicked upon, may allow the app to view and collect all of your information. Simply by allowing it access to your Facebook account, it can decipher all of your likes and comments and return a fairly accurate, if not chilling response. These responses also help to profile each individual user, which is now why so many sites offer you to connect with your Facebook account when logging in. Many other sites offer similar apps which may aid in detailing one’s likes or dislikes or other personal traits.

So… with this vast gathering of our personal information, can we be sure it is safe? Do we really believe it is to be used for the sole purpose of making our online experience more enjoyable? I for one highly doubt it! The attraction of social networking seems to be geared more towards harvesting our personal data, than as a way to communicate. If you are looking you keep your private information private, then stay away from sites like Facebook. Never at anytime link your accounts, and always use a separate login and password for every site you visit. Think before you give up that piece of information, as we have learned that in today’s society, information is one of our “most valuable” assets!

The World Today…

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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. ~ Albert Einstein

Truly a remarkable statement. What  if anything has changed since that statement was made? Has society today become so complacent that we do not see the folly of our actions? Do we no longer care about the planet which we all inhabit, the air in which we all breath, or the water we all drink? Are we all so inclined to give up our liberties without so much as a word uttered in defence?

These days judging from the response, or "lack of" for better words, it would seem that a great majority of society is quite content in letting big corporations push us aside.  As corporations the world over continually pollute our water and air, poison our food, pollute and destroy the environment and rob the land of valuable resources for their own profit, the masses stand silently still. As society moves towards a controlled surveillance state, many people are giving up their personal freedoms and civil liberties knowingly, at a great cost to humanity.

Today, one only has to turn to the media to see a deep decline in our basic human rights and civil liberties. Big corporations continue to wage war for profit. Those of us left in their wake struggle to survive, and in our struggles are labelled, unwittingly eroding our personal freedoms. Yet the elite in plain view continue to collect huge profits from atrocities perpetrated on the unsuspecting, putting all of humanity in peril. Corporate minions who control the courts and media daily spew falsehoods in order to further their agenda of world dominance. Laws favouring big business and the elite are passed to enforce and enhance their dominance while at the same time suppressing dissent. Politicians are bought and sold as if commodities, elections rigged, banks rewarded for their criminal behaviour. Still, the masses stand quiet.

Today's Real Hero's, those who choose to speak against the establishment, are now being labelled as if having a mental illness, or in extreme cases even criminal, setting them apart from the so called norm. They are cast aside by their closest allies and discredited by those who wish to silence their dissent. Systematically, they are being separated from those who have chosen to remain silent in face of adversary, further enforcing the will of the elite. How can one call this criminal, when their only wishes are to see all of humanity have a share in the worlds resources? Who was given the power to make such a judgement?

Perhaps it is the fear of retribution which has kept so many silenced. Or perhaps the falsehoods we have grown accustomed to hearing on a daily basis have finally taken their toll. Whatever it may be that keeps humanity from speaking out against such atrocities committed around the globe, must come to an end if humanity is to survive. It's time we all come together to stop the hatred and violence perpetrated against us by those who's only agenda is reaping huge profits and world dominance. We must set aside our fears and aspire change. We must now learn to stand together and not be deceived in our thinking that a better world is possible. By standing together, we can make the world a better place for all of humanity. Failure to do so affects us all and will have a grave impact on future generations, if there is to be any.

A lot may be said of the world today. Our biggest fight however, is the fight for humanity. We only have to open our eyes and our minds to see the real extent of our continued silence.

What’s In an Apple?

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CYMERA_20150110_020254I’ve been a computer geek now since the very beginning, (30+ years)and have been online from the very start when many of today’s technologies were nothing more than a pipe dream. Needless to say after countless years, I have seen a great many changes and improvements with regards to the advancement of new technologies. Although personally I never previously owned a Mac, I figured it was high time for me to try out the “supposed upgrade” as touted in computer technology.

With the purchase of my first Mac Book Pro, my initial response was one of satisfaction and utter excitement. I loved the quiet new look and was sold mostly by the incredible built in HD cam, which seemed superior to most other laptops that I had looked at. Having spent what some may believe to be a small fortune, (although I did manage to save a few dollars by opting out of the set up fee), to my delight I had had my new 13” Mac Book Pro up and running in no time at all.

With my prior experience in testing and running Linux software on a number of various computer systems, (perhaps a slight advantage), I quickly came to love my new Mac. From the ease in which the initial setup was completed, to the installation of multiple apps, the whole experience had left me overly impressed with my very first Mac. I was also greatly impressed by the apps that came bundled with the initial setup. Considered to be essential if not premium apps, I Photo, Pages, Keynote, Garage Band, and Virtual DJ to name a few, complemented the OS X nicely. All of which could easily be backed up to the cloud with the use of your Apple ID.

But wait… something was missing! Having over the years grown so dependent and accustomed to using Windows and Microsoft products, I quickly realized that indeed there is a difference between the two operating systems. The everyday software that I had used so frequently and had grown to love would not run on my Mac. Least not without a more intricate and complicated setup, which in the end would only degrade the performance of my Mac. Hence with few limited options, (Bootcamp, Virtual Machine or Wine), I chose to use Bootcamp and install Windows on my Mac. This option did require me to purchase the latest copy of Windows 8.1 however.

After an initial failed attempt, (caused by my not being too familiar with disk partitioning on a Mac), I did manage to fully install Windows alongside my OS X without any further problems and was once again overjoyed with my accomplishment. Now I had the best of both worlds, or so it seemed for a while. I was soon to find out that installing windows on a Mac doesn’t entitle you to the same benefits as if it were installed on a Windows machine. Sure I could now run all my old programs, however I did notice something amiss. While installing Windows, Bootcamp also installed its “Mac version” of drivers required to run and display Windows on a Mac, causing some overall performance issues. Most notably with the display driver lacking any true potential.

At this point, not one to sacrifice my new laptops performance or potential, I opted to give up on some of my old programs and do complete factories restore on my Mac. Having forgotten my Apple ID and having misplaced my recovery key left me at a somewhat disadvantage. Being unable to now retrieve my premium apps from the cloud in itself made me furious. Apparently, after a long frustrating call, even Apple Tech Support was unable to retrieve my info, (which still baffles me), prompting me to set up a new Apple ID. Once I had restored my Mac to it’s factory settings, minus the premium apps that came with it at time of purchase and that I was unable to retrieve from Apple, (I figure this is some kind of scam requiring you to repurchase the apps), I decided to try the update to the next OS X Yosemite.

The update itself went off without a hitch, however at the initial start-up of OS X Yosemite I was immediately dismayed by the overall look of this OS update. The over all appearance reminiscent of my childhood days… plain and simple! Considering the source, and the monies spent to purchase an Apple in the first place, I found it very disappointing and perhaps a step back. However looks aside, I did find the OS in itself to be completely responsive in some area’s, while lagging, and in some instances, coming to a complete stop in others. Thus prompting me once again to return to happier times, and yet another factory reset.

Disheartened after days of configuring, updating, and valuable lost time, I’m happy and content that life is back to normal for my new Mac. Returning finally to its former glory, coupled with the latest Microsoft Office Suite plus a choice few exemplary apps.

The moral of this story… Sometimes it’s best to stick with the original package! An upgrade does not always guarantee a better package and may not be in your best interest!

An Apple can and may have worms!

The New Improved Facebook (10 Years Later!)

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Facebook is like a fridge. You keep checking it, but there's nothing good. ~ facebook status

IMG_1577It was March 26th 2007 when I first logged into Facebook. And, after adding a few pictures to the family album, I spent the next couple months just browsing through the site reminiscent of my past , (some wannabe developer) and wishing that my name was Mark E Zuckerberg. But that was almost ten years ago! Today, in all modesty, I’m just happy to be the person I am. 

My first words posted on Facebook on July 26th 2007 were: : at home. I wasn’t really at home, least not the home I had hoped for, nor did I believe anyone actually cared. (Notably this was not one of the more happier times in my life!) Then along came Facebook.  Promising to connect the world, which at the time, I would have believed to be just another fairy tale. However once you were drawn in, you could then easily visualise the potential such an open community may have enabling communications around the world,  knowing very little if anything ,of the dangers it represents. It seemed like another world where one was free to privately share all their secrets, and interact freely with people all around the world. Or so we were led to believe.  Like I said previously, that was 10 years ago!

Then suddenly, everyone’s taking about it!

“Just weeks after the launch of Canada's largest-ever pro-privacy Coalition, it seems the whole country is demanding answers on the government's out-of-control surveillance.”

Not only was this happening in Canada, seems the NSA has been recording us for years without our knowledge. Thanks to Edward Snowden the NSA was exposed and shed some light on what really is going on in and around social networking sites, and Facebook in particular.

A exemplary article published by the ACLU, (American Civil Liberties Union) So you think you have nothing to hide... probably say’s it best when talking about our most personable and sensitive information!

Privacy isn't the same as secrecy. Privacy is about controlling information about you, including who knows what, under what circumstances, and when. Privacy is about being in control and in charge of your own life, and having the power to shape other people's perceptions of you. Today, we are effectively at the mercy of millions of unknown people who lord over us the power to destroy our reputations, relationships, and professional lives with the click of a button.

Yet when we look at the Facebook of today, it has become undeniably some kind of super informational commodity being bought and sold at the highest price! How subtle were the changes that led us down the path, silently robbing all civilization of our identities, whether intentional or not! I’m sure if you were to ask, your immediate response would be that is not of their intention. If like me however, you have been there from the beginning, you would now realize what a costly mistake we have all made and how Facebook , much like the other huge corporations, has slowly become just another evil empire.

What we once thought we had control over, has once again been taken over by corporate greed and the all mighty dollar. (Much like the Conservative Party has done to Canada…) Recently while touring around and trying to get a better understanding of how Facebook works, I’ve come to notice that changes are constantly and silently being made which can become pretty confusing at times for the best of us! Settings changed without notice, select posts showing in our news feeds. Missing entries in our timeline. Notes I assumed I had shared with only my friends had somehow become public for the whole world to see. Seems we have also lost the ability to share notes from one of our pages to another or share with a friend, which I must admit found a little unusual. The list of changes goes on forever. Yet like a true puppet master, Facebook has once again changed the rules to accommodate those of their shareholders who will stop at nothing , marketing our very existence to the highest bidder. Let’s just call it what it is… “Social Harvesting”

Personally, when I look at some of the newly implemented practices on Facebook,  I am deeply concerned. What showed promise to bring the world together and make it a more open and better place, is now robbing our children, and yes, even some of us other people, of our life and liberty, all while putting some imaginary price on our heads. As we all have probably seen in the coverage recently on numerous media outlets, No one is exempt It’s become our duty as parents in to instil better discipline in our children when it comes to social networking, and their online habits in general. We must teach them how to protect the very commodity they own, themselves! Not an easy task in this day and age, but a necessity. Our personal information is now fast becoming a valuable commodity, and for more reasons than one may expect.  You only have to open your mind to see the endless possibilities here.

On the other hand, I believe social networking does have it’s merits and plays an important part, as does the internet, in helping to bring people together and shape tomorrows' future. But still we must insist that our personal information remains just that, personal! Our information should not be freely shared across the web, unless of course that is what you choose. I believe that if we choose to share our personal information with sites like Facebook, Twitter,  and Linked-In etc.… Then it is they who should be held accountable and to make sure it is protected. Our information should not be freely shared at any cost, nor at any time…

Then again, who are we kidding! Welcome to Facebook in the 21st Century!

Awaiting Moderation…

Posted by Derek J.Sowa | Posted in , | Posted on 12:17 PM

Powerful words… Seems commonplace these days but what do these two words really mean? 

Yahoo Answers: It means it's been put in a queue for a moderator (i.e. a person who checks the comments) to read it and check it's fit to publish. Like anything with a human element, it varies: a few hours is reasonable.

moderationNot sure I would agree with the above answer, but you get the idea. Have you ever tried to comment on a ‘local or top news’ story only to see these two words appear? Frustrating is it not? Why do we even need a Moderator for public content? Do they not have scripts for omitting objectionable words that may be considered offensive? Who would even think that in todays technically advanced world we would even see these two words. After all, don’t they want to hear our side of the story? In most cases it would seem not! More and more news content posted these days seems to be moderated to the point where you must conform to their standards or not be heard at all. Seems like all big media do not like to play fair!

No matter where you go on the web today, it’s becoming commonplace to see these words, (or lack of in some cases) when ever you wish to have you say.  The hidden meaning behind these two simple words though is really more discriminating and should read: Comment Censored! Yes, censorship is everywhere these days which is a huge problem we all face.  Albeit, censorship in it’s worst form!  If we as a society are not even allowed to say what we may feel on news deemed worthy enough to go public, then we really are doomed.

Today, Censorship in it’s current form has become increasingly detrimental to sustaining a healthy society. If society is not freely allowed to share with one another their humble views on world issues, then it becomes a one sided street, with the advantage given to those who are in control… The Moderator. (aka The Media, The Government, and the Corporations who like nothing better than to supress the thoughts of those who in their eyes are deemed unworthy of an opinion)  In doing such, a dictatorship is formed and really, no one likes a dictator. Hence, this is the path we are on, spiralling out of control deep into the abyss of todays moderation.

“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

There are many types and forms of moderation, each type shaped and moulded to suit the individual need.  Wikipedia describes moderation as the process of eliminating or lessening extremes. It is used to ensure normality throughout the medium on which it is being conducted.  Is that not censorship or is there even something more sinister at work here?  Read the description more carefully this time.  These two phrases jump out . (eliminating or lessening extremes, ensure normality throughout the medium) Sound’s to me like someone want’s to play GOD here! Oxford’s definition: the avoidance of excess or extremes, especially in one’s behaviour or political opinions. Although worded slightly different, still very powerful.  Myself, I find that kind of moderation to be deeply disturbing  if not downright controlling.

Moderation in another form may also be found today in many social media sites as the powers that be scramble desperately to try and stem the flow of discontent and solidarity happening all across the globe today. They fear the power of social media, and are now trying to curtail it’s use forcing  site owners to moderate it users content, and by enacting laws that will ultimately bring it’s demise. Modern day slavery? Perhaps, but disturbing none the less.  It’s this kind of moderation of society that is making a mockery of our democratic system and fuelling the flames for what is to surely come. What will happen then? When the voices of all the people are stifled by a selected few,  will there be anything left to say?  Can we as a society really afford to let that come to light? From all I have witnessed recently, it shall surely come to pass if society continues to sit idle and await further moderation!

How the “Corporate Grinch” Screwed Christmas

Posted by Derek J.Sowa | Posted in , , | Posted on 12:56 PM

With yet another holiday season upon up, many of us Canadians, not to mention millions of others around the world are once again feeling the pinch of the holiday season… (consumerism and corporate greed.)

Yes it is the end of another good year if you are the CEO or one of the top executives of some fortune 500 company. Yet for those of us far less fortunate, more and more we find ourselves nearing poverty, struggling to put those simple gifts under the tree or food on our tables, while millions of young children the world over suffer from famine. What should be a time of sharing, a time of compassion and giving, of brining families together to rejoice and reflect on the years accomplishments and celebrate life, has somehow transpired into something much less meaningful thanks to the world of consumerism and mostly, corporate greed. Instead we find that once again the true spirit of Christmas has been lost leaving so many of us with a sour taste in our mouths that we may not easily wash away.  Visions of sugar plums? Bah Humbug.

The “Corporate Grinch” hides his ugly head as he eagerly stashes away his new found wealth far from prying eyes as he plans his next diabolical move. Rubbing his greedy little fingers together while pondering yet more austerity cuts. Using cheap labour to amass his good fortune, he thinks no one has noticed his sinister ways. Yet in the real world of  “Whoville”, many people are awakening to find that perhaps the true spirit of Christmas means something a whole lot more!

 

With the ever increasing cost of maintaining our daily lives it’s not hard to see why so many of us feel overwhelmed during the holiday season. So much of our acquired wealth now goes to the “Corporate Grinch” that we can barely survive one holiday before the next one steps up to take it’s place. The vast majority of us struggle on a daily basis just to pay our ever increasing debt, leaving us feeling isolated and with little hope. Seldom do our meagre wages meet with the demand of todays modern world and yet each and every year we see a rise in expenses at every turn while the corporations who employ us reap huge profits. Almost yearly we see a increase in taxes, increased service fees, increases in food and housing prices, increases at the pump! And still they want more…

Is there a light at the end of the tunnel? (Perhaps Kevin Bloody Wilson say it best  with his tribute to the holiday season.) I believe there is and it is in the awakening of millions of people worldwide. People are becoming more aware and opposed to the “Corporate Grinch” than ever before. People are coming together to oppose all levels of corporate greed and we need desperately to keep this momentum going. We need to become more aware of our actions when we shop for certain items manufactured with the use of cheap labour. We need to learn better to understand our economy, and those who would control it. We need to band together, strive together to make sure that no one is left hungry or cold. That every man, woman and child may know the true spirit of Christmas.

“The Colors of Fall”

Posted by Derek J.Sowa | Posted in | Posted on 7:26 PM

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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. ~ Charles Darwin

The seasons change! Fall becomes Winter, Winter becomes Spring, Spring becomes Summer and the cycle repeats itself in endless fashion. Unrelenting, the seasons change year after year reminding us that change is inevitable. Yet when one looks closer is it really change we see, or is it just the  same endless seasons come back to fool us one more time?

Much like the politics of today… new faces replace the old, the strong replace the weak, new lies replace old and the change we seek is reminiscent of the colors of fall. We all can see the leaves change color and then their gone, buried deep beneath the glistening snow. Just like the many promises made day in and day out by those we entrust to bring about change, we are once again fooled into waiting yet another season, hoping for brighter days.

How long can one wait? In a world now plagued with corruption and deception at every level, can we really afford to stand idle and wait for the snow to disappear? For once the snow glistening with all it’s promise fades into spring  and has long passed away, what if anything has changed? With the coming of a new season, the sun will surely still shine, the grass will still grow, and the birds will once again sing their happy tune! However for the rest of humanity, I fear humanity will still be where it was before the snow came, looking once more for the colors of fall, the smell of decay strong on our nostrils.

If we are to save humanity and our frail planet, we need not wait for change, we must learn and strive with each passing day to make that change happen. Mankind can not afford to wait for the passing of the seasons any longer. We must now open our hearts and our minds to effect change. We must empower and educate our young so that they live each new season with joy and content. We must rid ourselves of all false hope being stowed upon us by those wising to enslave us, and learn to think freely for ourselves. We must put an end to all deception, the overwhelming greed of corporations, and the undying corruption, for it has no place among us. We must learn to show more compassion with all people and the world around us if we wish for effective change to take place. We are our only hope!

This very moment, as you stop to admire the colors of fall and the changing of yet another season, perhaps it is time you ask something of yourself… What change it is that you would like to see and work hard to make it happen. Only then will you truly enjoy the Colors of Fall.

Learn to look for and appreciate the love, beauty and kindness around you. It's there, but, you may have to change your thinking and behaviour to discover it!

"A Special Note From The Occupy Movement"

Posted by Derek J.Sowa | Posted in , , , | Posted on 9:31 AM

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people ~ Mahatma Gandhi

172685-occupy-wall-street-moves-uptownAs a once proud Canadian, I have to admit that I’m somewhat disappointed in my fellow Canadian’s who seem content with the life they now live. (You Fuckin’ Pussies…) Stand up and be counted! As the world we currently live in seems to be rapidly deteriorating around us, very few seem to take note that as each day passes our freedoms erode to new heights. Corporations, Big Banks and an undemocratic and corrupt Government have conspired against us to their own agenda, while the working class suffer in their wake. The ruling class, using their puppets in the form of local television and media have been able to control the thoughts and minds of their minion’s, of which seem to sacredly worship all they see and hear.
 
Perhaps it’s the comfort they derive from their own materialistic attributes that they fail to see the world beyond their precious surroundings. They idly lay on their sofa’s gazing at some silly repeat of their favourite reality TV show, perhaps even pondering their next extravagant purchase of some useless item which has no purpose other than to upgrade their status, seemingly unaware of the atrocities committed almost daily throughout the entire world.  As they lavish in their contentment, millions of children worldwide cry out from poverty and hunger. Thousands more people die almost daily in unjust wars while millions more from all walks of life are oppressed. The environment is decaying as oil companies and big industries spew their toxic waste. Yet sadly, they see nothing!
 
As for those who do see and wish to make a difference, they only become further oppressed. Not only by their Government’s, but from their very own kind. (Their Family, Their Friends, Their Neighbours) The one’s who are content as long as it’s not their child starving or their family who is being killed in some unjust war. As long as they don’t have to drink tainted waters or breathe the air polluted by big industries. Yeah… as long as they are safe with all their amenities they have nothing much to say. For the time being they will side with their cohorts’ as long as it is favourable. Denouncing all those who strive for change!
 
317518_274730299215291_204904669531188_911586_69951692_nNow, for a moment imagine the shoe on the other foot? What if it was YOU who was being oppressed? What if it was your family who were being detained, or killed by some out of control Government? Sadly, it is! (Too bad you you’ve yet to notice.) WAKE (the fuck) UP!!! Get your heads out of the “Good Book” and have a look at the real world. It’s not as pretty as you may think!! Those of us trying to make a difference are not hoping to get a big pay check at the end of the day. We want what everyone should strive for. We demand Equality… A Responsible Government! A government who’s concerns are for the people who have put their trust in them to make a difference and not the corporations who abuse the system. If you wish to be silent… be sure to keep your trap shut when all of your freedoms have been quelled! Don’t jump the fence when your world turns sour… you may not like what you find on the other side!