Days of Rage – Summer Volatility, Disclosure and Anxiety

The summer of 2017 in the Northern hemisphere is kicking in. For us Finns, midsummer equates slow news seasons mostly because people are spending their vacations from mid-June till the end of July. That surely doesn't mean that the world comes to a standstill. We have to stay alert. Just recently, the local security police (SUPO) has issued a heightened terror warning. This means that we have reached threat level two in four tier system. So far there has been no terror attacks. In a way, we are lucky to remain in the periphery of Europe, out of harms way; whereas central parts in Europe, such as London, Paris and Berlin will most likely have to endure the failure of the security state.

However the political whammies continue to drive us insane. This accounts indeed to the expected volatility of mental states and world view. The economy shows some upbeat, yet all the financial systems are manipulated that wealth can be sucked out of the working men and women at all stages. Once again the people have been misled. In Finland, the government played some of us like a fiddle and staged a fake splintering of one of the coalition parties in order to promote the pro-EU integration, spending and military union above sovereign rights. The new splinter started by calling themselves the New Alternative but soon changed its name to Blue Future, blue like the EU flag. It was a PR nightmare but fortunately people are asleep and plundering can continue until IEDs ravage the local capitals every week.

The EU has succeeded in integration terrorism part of Europeans daily lives. This doesn't mean that there was no terrorism before the EU when there was indeed a lot. Although, this time around, the fear and anxiety are starting to tear the people's trust to society apart. Add to that poor economic situation, and we'll have a mess on our hands. I hardly see a way out of this calamity. I feel it has to pay its due course and hubris needs to settle the score. We have to endure the scorn of indifference. Since many individuals will have hard time digesting the reality once it strikes them, I'm somewhat concerned about many poor souls who will figuratively eaten alive by the coming change. What about food, what electricity, water, money? Have you thought about it or has it always been a given in your life? Can we prevent the state of decay or can we accelerate the society's descent into looting lawlessness versus orderly anarchy?

We can indeed worry about it later once it happens. Our ability absorbs and absolve bad news will be tested soon. Some will no doubt find it a relief. I'm positive most of us can adapt quickly yet soon everybody is going to need an update of how the world works. Big masses will eventually find out new names and reliable sources for their information needs. New and old ideas will find new owners and users.

There will more twists and schemes ahead. It seems that the situation in Syria is once more growing more explosive as the US decided to attack the Syrian air corps. This incident did not delight the Russians who vowed to stop US helping IS. The situation in Mosul is desperate as civilians are held as human shields by the Daesh occupiers. Qatar debacle has been rerouted to long term freezing of relations as the Saudis make rearrangements in their own power structure. ISIS militants also cling to the Philippine city of Marawi in a geopolitical move to destabilize Duterte. Indonesia is facing similar scenarios. The Korean saber rattling will mostly likely continue although some pressure was relieved because the new South Korean president is pro-peace.

In Europe, terror attacks and violence will become everyday nuisance. It will remain a part of big city life. To tackle this threat, EU will develop more integration and boost military and intelligence cooperation. This will lead to loss privacy and other civil rights but won't stop terror since mass surveillance is inefficient and intel agencies work hand in had with extremists against the common enemy – the public.

In US, we can witness the disintegration of the political system. Nothing gets done. Police violence and counter-protestor riots will harm the public's trust in the system. Confrontations will continue as it will serve as political theater for the masses who'll rally their own against the wrongdoers. There will be many individuals who'll profit from this indignation and lack of civil manners on both sides of the political spectrum. More literal theater intervention to stop the figurative Trump assassination memes from spreading to corrupt further minds.

Let's cool our minds in the freezing Antarctica where something bigger than icebergs is about to shock the world. It's shock therapy time.

State of the industry: Reality meets imagination - Promise of next-gen

Been a long time since I wrote something on this blog. I admit I've been busy with my Finnish socio-economic blog writing much more than I should've. Nonetheless, I should post here and then videos on Youtube while I still can with all the regulations and international law / free trade deals currently in progress undermining all the avant-garde work of bloggers and citizen journalists world wide. If you have no idea what I'm referring to, two words: TPP and TTIP. First one Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free trade agreement on many things wonderous, intellectual property right aka copy right for instance. The latter same kind of treaty between US and EU. Bunch of corporate BS. Find out about it. You're not going to like it.

Next-gen go gaga

Well, not really. Maybe an euphemism. There's a rocky road ahead. I want to address some of the troubling news that lie ahead notwithstanding you care or not. Willingness to buy in to the next-gen tech of video game consoles is of course a hot topic with the raging war between Xboners and PS4evers as seen in South Park episode Black Friday. Anyhow, first thing first, the price will be an issue for many since the economy is down the gutter. Second of all, the pre-holiday season release to push half-baked technical solutions will result in hardware malfunction and glitches, much like seen with the overwhelming episode over GTAV online hardships. Never again. Given the context of things, those are some the everyday things people should find out whether they decide to commit to a certain platform. Yet again we'll have to wait and see about the launch titles as well, some of which have already been postponed, thank God, to avoid premature exposure. For the better, I'm sure.

War of the worlds

The series of issues I'm going to address are not found within the usual parameters of next-gen debate: namely privacy, connectivity, health issues and copy right. These arguments go both sides. First, I start with the least important or the most known adverse effect of gaming: loss of health. 

Health issues are grave. As more and more people are prone to work, live and stay indoors, they lead a sedentary lifestyle and that combined with poor nutrition will result in devastating health problems. 1+2=disaster. In US, the public health renovation under Obamacare will also undermine the well-being of gamers, children mostly.

Then there's the alarmingly growing EMF exposure for everyone close the electrical appliances, the console, router, wi-fi etc. This factor will grow exponentially in cities where people bathe in EMF pollution. Studies point to negative health effects. Duh.

Third alarming point I want to raise is mental health aberrations due to sum unbeknownst factors (lifestyle, food, water, drugs, narcotics, disease, TV flicker rate, EMF, graphic content etc.). No big deal, it's called a life, but still can't help wondering about brainwaves, propaganda, conditioning and manipulation. Be warned though.

On the bright side, all of these can be defeated with proper lifestyle choices. Now that health is dealt with, let's continue to analyse privacy and connectivity. These too are important for the well-being of an individual. You've probably heard by now about the global scale mass surveillance and control grid that's out of East German style dystopian sci-fi flick. Nonetheless, we have it. We didn't know for sure that it existed. Movie references of surveillance tech were, we thought, most likely some film writer's fantasy. However, things are even worse in reality. No, we don't have GIs fighting Cobras in a worldwide scale, that's a fantasy. Instead we have enormous global corporate government that spies people that might some day become a threat to their existence. So gov't hand in hand with corporate interests, because the corps pay more than us, have decided to rape us over privacy and control us and make us pay for it. Long story short, my BIG issue lies with big corporations such as Microsoft that spies, collects information and shares it with their surveillance agency masters: buying a Xbox will surely contribute to their crime and gives them direct access to your living room with Kinect there watching you constantly, waiting you to make your move, say something that later might and will be used against you. They got you by the balls and so you buy in and play ball and contribute once again to the tyrants.

http://www.infowars.com/new-xbox-to-produce-child-porn/

Now that I've got that off my chest, be sure look for yourself information about Kinect's spy capability. Plus the radiation. I guess the corporations would lie to us, again. The gov't can force a back door to any system, and probably already has, and gag companies.

Third major side note of this post refers to free trade agreements (TPP and TTIP) that will destroy the internet as we know it, will put ordinary folks in jail for copy right infringement and on top of that will destroy the remains of democracy (not that that hasn't already happened in many places, but still big RAPE).