Boxing Week Bonanza of Privacy Invasiveness

Well, I suppose I should begin by wishing everyone a joyous 'near winter solstice' festive season sprinkled with 'get out of slavery' free days, and I hope Satan's Claws were gentile on your pocket book... Or... More importantly I should say fuck that noise: Merry Christmas, which thanks to predictive typing and auto-politically-correct took 4 times each to type before I finally gave up and tapped each individual letter to obtain the desired result of "Merry Christmas" (this time copied and pasted because I know predictive means nobody would ever type the same words twice in a sentence)... Sure, Christmas may have come and gone but we all know full well that this doesn't need to end our relationships with the merchants who have now gone about marking down the prices on all that useless crap we didn't find in our stockings, because those filling our stockings were busy being told that their holding company refused to extend them the debt required to pay full price in what used to be known as boxing day, which worked so well in keeping us giving away our money that it was extended to boxing week, and finally some kind of octa-seminal period ending just in time for valentines day...

Much the same as how American Thanksgiving is followed up by the throat punching frenzy called black Friday, it really is about giving thanks to the bank for letting us spend the blood of our children in exchange for a wheelbarrow full of overpriced shit we didn't know we needed until it went on sale. I don't hate Christmas, but I do hate that it seemingly misrepresents love and joy as having some monetary value which must never be underspent lest we find ourselves disowned. Because we all know who benefits from that portrayal: the bankers, merchants, and corporations who invented the spirit of giving, and the most notorious child labour law breaker, Mr Claws of Satan himself...

Think about it, Tolkien's elves are tall and slender, Santa's are short like 5-year-old children. There has to be some reason for this discrepancy as to size, and I'm figuring it was meant to be some kind of inside joke which until this very moment I had never given a moments thought. As incredible as it may sound, I've realized just how deep the social engineering project gets... I just saw a commercial for a grocery store points program which: gives you 200 points per dollar spent, and gives you 1 dollar off for every 1000 points collected... Now it's possible that I wasn't really listening, because I am prone to paying no mind to the magic box... 1 free dollar for every 5 I spend? (again, I might have the exacts wrong, but still I am to be rewarded for logging all of my purchases to my name, perhaps I shall try to video tape this commercial) …And all I have to do is allow you to profile my purchasing and eating habits and sell this data to the highest bidder? Well, it's starting to sound like somebody should probably be paying me as well as letting me walk out the store with whatever fits in the cart for free... Doesn't it? When you look at it from that perspective, this no longer sounds all that implausible, does it? And yet, with just the right focus, or lack thereof, you start to see just how interconnected and interdependent this whole system of control really is.

But surely this is just crazy talk rantings of a disgruntled fellow who fell off the world and was denied reentry into it? Right?

I've never stated that I have the requisite qualifications to have any idea what I am talking about, nor that I even know what those requisites might be, so, you are left to ask yourself if anything I have said was worth listening to in the first place... Ah the quandary of freedom, to accept the truth in it's naked ugliness, or, garnish it with the trimmings of your own perspective thus transforming it into whatever it isn't, yet is more palatable, even if it is no longer true in the fashion of it's original intent...

But that is a choice I leave to you.

-dirtykid©

Addendum: I was planning to, at some point, make mention of the hypocrites openly declaring the now dead Nelson Mandela a hero to humanity despite the role their country played in bringing the terrorist version of Mandela to justice all those years earlier... But it really did not seem to fit the tone of everything else I have said here. Sometimes that's just how these things go.

ask the experts in your regularly scheduled programming

I know it has been a while since I have asked why do we trust 'experts' to give us our opinions? I mean here's one expert we can't trust to give us a copy of her diploma, so what else might she lie about, hmm? I am an expert in one thing, and that is knowing better than to call myself an expert at anything even if I do know that Egypt borders neither Syria, nor Iran:

Iraq'ed my brain trying to figure out what's not right here...

I mean, experts came up with the idea that NAFTA would be good for Canadian consumers via lower prices, but instead we get this kind of thing happening. These kinds of things usually end poorly, yet we still have politicians negotiating TPP, CETA, & FIPA (oops, too late on FIPA) behind closed doors... If there really was some concern on their part, for foreign investors, then there would be a whole lot of people in prison for all those Triple-A rated junk bonds known as Mortgage Backed Securities which were purchased by the American taxpayer, rather than prosecuted. Nobody has gone to jail for that, but somehow, we now have swat teams sent out to establish who pissed in the pool, or something along that vein.

Do we really need an expert to tell us that 'bus boy' is such a complex career choice that it should have unpaid internships associated with it? How twisted and backwards do things need to be before everybody realizes that we left the boundaries of anything even resembling normal a long time ago, and that the only way to get back to normal is by stopping the rank-in-file march into insanity.

I know it's hard to hear oneself think over the 'regularly scheduled programming', which is why you should start in a small and targeted way, like, for example, "why do they call it programming?" seems like as good a place to begin to question things as any, does it not? Eventually that single question leads to a "Could they really be this blatantly NOT hiding this 'program' from the 'programmed'?" at some point down the line... I mean, the word "program" itself seems to have some very interesting meanings, most of which pertain to 'plans of action', 'encoding operating instructions', 'inserting instructions', 'causing automatic responses', or "a radio or television production".... Hmmm, that's interesting, isn't it?

-DIrtyKID©

Olympic bullshitting competition and other égarements linguistiques

So the quebec government has succeeded in getting us divided on a non-issue while we stop talking about real issues, well, at least some of us as there is still the occasional editorial and open letter here and there. But these are still taking time and effort away from discussing the fact that Quebec is now shedding 5000 jobs a month, and that giant craters are opening up and swallowing backhoes in the middle of downtown Montreal. Of course, this all goes towards a goal of evacuating the province of all those who are affected by this 'dress code' because these are not people who make up the desired demographic of morons who would vote for an independent Quebec that uses Canadian dollars (oxymoron intended). I am aware that outside of Montreal and Quebec City there is a large population of backwoods hicks who have never even seen a muslim except for those being labelled as a terrorist on the evening 'nouvelles', and who can't speak a word of "da H'english" save for having a "craque dans le windshield" or "un flatte dans le ti'er", or who eat at their backyard BBQ "les 'ot dogs et les 'amburgers" (note to non-Quebec readers: Quebec Francophones speaking English cannot pronounce "H" when it's at the beginning of a word, but somehow add an "H" to the beginning of any word starting with a vowel, without some level of practice). I mean it isn't like they are planning to remove the Catholic found just about everywhere... Majority of Quebec townships and streets are "Saint(e)" something-or-other, but that's OK because this is part of Quebec's heritage (of double standards). I mean, really, this doesn't even ban opening prayers at municipal council meetings, separation of church and state my ass...

have a nice day†

The amazing legal caveats of not owning your data has started to cause a backlash against cloud services... I did see this one coming, though I did not foresee it's catalyst. Whatever the cause, the effect might mean I get a job soon... But like anything I've ever said, we'll see. Some of this hinges on how things are interpreted locally, and whether or not Montreal companies feel naked with all the recent spying and other breaches of privacy. There have been other developments in the technology space, I'd cut up my Visa or Master Card in protest, if I were owned by either such thing.

The Ultimate Sin

It appears to be a slow news day here in the land of looney twoneys and maple syrup. Of course, it's a holiday weekend, and a Sunday morning, so maybe I simply need to wait for "stupid" to wake up and say things as will inevitably happen... I'm done parroting on about Edward Snowden and Michael Hastings, the NSA, and the police state for the moment and have zero unread items in my news feeds right now, which suggests I might actually have nothing to talk about. Except that it's been brought to my attention that I haven't mentioned certain things in a very long while. I might have eluded to them, or put up links to them, and I've even done some funky math to illustrate them, but not openly said them...

Yes, it's time to talk about the ultimate sin: usurious fractional reserve banking

...all the warmth of a chain-mail duvet cover filled with ice shards

I once read that if you cut a worm in two, it becomes two worms. While I never truly understood how that's even possible I am sometimes shown real world examples of snakes growing a new head to remind me of how it might work. Even if this example does not make two snakes, it at least shows how the side of the worm without a brain manages to grow a new one. I suppose the other half, without an anus, doesn't matter as much and it gets a short respite from having the shit scared out of it like some other spineless cowards out there.

Domino

It appears that the next domino in the chain of consequence has begun falling. It could simply be shrugged off as the inevitable and obvious next phase. It couldn't have not happened because it had already been happening since before it actually happened. Many foresaw it as did I, but this would have been a perfect time to have been proven wrong... Wrong had little consequence: an apology, mild embarrassment. Some people simply never can admit to being wrong, but, of course, their consequence would have been greater than mine own. My losing face holds little risk for I am faceless, my losing faith holds little value for I am faithless.

When the cherry coke sponsored version of freedom looks like this nobody is free, or ever was.

It's pretty black & white, from my perspective

I've been aware since long before I started writing that there could be consequences to speaking my mind, especially once things get down to understanding the motives behind the conspiracies. The name-calling started long before I got here, and I could see it for what it was then: a thinly-veiled attempt to change the subject and discredit anybody whose evidence could not be disputed by any 'expert'.

colour by numbers or connect the dots?

So they've been playing fun-with-numbers again. I would like to add that it's troubling that the gains have been in the public sector, while private sector jobs are still in the negative. They don't really highlight that fact enough, but it is really a matter of halting the $15000 welfare checks by paying them a government salary of a much larger number... It cannot help things for very long, and I doubt it will spawn a sudden recovery to anything but personal bank accounts or debt ratios for those newly appointed bureaucrats. It certainly does nothing to curb the outflow of tax dollars, nor generate new tax income. So I presume this is an exercise in making things look good on paper, I wonder who the potential buyer is?

Boil ice cubes, or watch paint dry...

It's hard to swallow anything calling itself science, when that science makes claims that melting ice is causing more ice... I'm debating putting an ice cube on the stove and waiting until the more ice appears, maybe somebody will pay me for such valuable data, like GE or White Westinghouse, or other companies that could manufacture a refrigerator or weapon of mass destruction effectively based on the principle that I unlocked the secret to forming ice cubes in a pot of boiling water.

--OR--

the illusion of truth sets no one free

I know there's no amount of effort that I can personally put in that counteracts the effort of some others out there pushing one agenda or another, and some are pushing every agenda in under ten minutes, but that's not enough of a reason for me to give up hope. Bad people are doing bad things and for all the wrong reasons, no less. It is the same as it ever was, only now with less pie than ever before, and because the numbers lie, we actually don't have any clue how bad things actually are. With such disbelief and uncertainty is it any wonder that everyone is extremely jittery? And I say jittery simply because I can't find a better word for it, maybe I'll have to invent such a word: Terrorificified.

Do you have a permit for that?

How many independence days does Canada celebrate? Most people would think the answer to be one... They are incorrect based on what I witnessed downtown yesterday:

All the kings horses and all the kings men were there to make sure things went smoothly, too:

I debated asking these people for their permit to 'congregate in groups larger than 5' but I had an appointment that I figured I would miss, had I been arrested... I even had to walk through it to get to that appointment:

-DIrtyKID©

Freedom

I live in the cage of your beliefs. It's a world I neither built nor chose to reside in, yet there it is, everywhere.

It's a world void of justice or harmony where terrorist boogeymen and bankers collude amongst themselves buying politicians at wholesale prices. Every perversion is just a couple of channel clicks away to keep you comfortably distracted and unfocused on the goings on that are going on.

I am no longer a number in it. Statistically, I am nobody: neither employed, nor unemployed.

I'm expected to pay taxes with money I cannot create out of thin air, to those who can create money out of thin air to pay for services I've never used while being denied access to the only services I actually need, and to pay the salaries of people I did not vote for. I get to pay extra so that tax exempt child molesters are allowed to live in sanctuary while selling redemption and preaching morals from a decaying pulpit.

I pay for corporations who don't hire me to pay out bonuses to those who can't read the writing on the wall, and failed to comprehend that nothing can be status quo forever and continue to thrive endlessly unadaptive, yet persist in using moronic phrases like 'think outside the box'.

My past labours are the cornerstone in an ivory tower that security guards are paid minimum wage to prevent me from entering.

Many out there can see it, many out there talk about it, but still everybody appears to be content to find their place within it. Mindlessly they latch on to some old cliché about voting, or boycotting, or protesting without coming to terms with the fact that these avenues all lead to exactly where we are now, but with less energy than we had before we travelled them. Unsuspecting or unaware that this energy drain means these avenues are working as intended.

What is freedom?

Freedom is not something that is given away, freely. Freedom can only be earned, or stolen, and those of us who've been sold the lie that we were born into freedom have not been earning it, so it can only stand to reason that it is being stolen from us.

-DIrtyKID©

Semitic symantics

http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/anti-semite-moi/

The next time you are called anti-Semitic, remember to retort that you have no quarrel with the Palestinians, Iranians, Iraqis, Lebanese, Libyans, or any other of these countries of Aramaic descent. Because, the reality of the Israelis being 'Semitic' is, that they are not very, if even at all. Don't worry, I'm not the one making such outlandish claims, a Jewish doctor is, and, is even going so far as to call any previous research which claims to have discovered the 'Jewish genome' to be a work of scientific fraud.