Man on a Mission from God

I have a life. It's right in front of me. I've basically built it the way I like, but I am never happy because there is always more I want or more I want to do. Isn't that pretty much the whole experience until you die? I mean it seems real obvious to me that life will always throw you curve balls and sometimes it isn't even life itself, but the things I do and say that curves away from me only to return with such speed and force that I'm knocked off balance by my own actions. It's like the worse character flaw ever and I just realized something by writing this all down. That isn't even me that I'm describing because that is something I see in all men. I sort of understand it a little better now. I'm trying to be like them and I get all messed up when I do that. When I think about it, it reminds me of Thanos from the Avengers. Thanos is distraught character who is trying to make up for his shortcomings by achieving ultimate power. I watched the show and after some careful deliberation, the dialog does meet the conclusion of villain but after witnessing the soul stone scene, I'm leaning more towards prodigal god and the attempt to as he say's "Bring Balance to the universe." You see Thanos not only sees himself as a force to bring justice to the universe, but enlightening he feels the moral obligation to do so by murdering many. That is an interesting conquest for our time that we live in right now. I'm struggling with this because, as we all know, an Avengers movie or any Super Hero movie has an element of moral drama. The idea is that not only as a hero, but in relationship to just being a thoughtful person with a good understanding of standards and knowledge between right and wrong, we often confuse our intention to "Do Good," with an elaborate self-serving action. So the question remains, "If something is good for us, does it mean it's good for everyone?" In Thanos' perspective, it costs him everything. That scene where he throws Gamora off of the cliff to acquire the soul stone is particularly powerful because it appears the villain from Captain America movie is the guardian of the place and he explains that is the way things are setup. The stone requires a test. In this scene, Thanos quickly realizes in order to get the soul stone, he must sacrifice someone he loves dearly and he doesn't hesitate to explain it to Gamora right before he throws her off of the cliff. I don't know what this means to everyone else, but with regards to being human, I think I understand it a little. It's like when we come to a difficult decision in life where were forced to choose between people and a lot of times, it's between people we love and ourselves. Thanos doesn't hesitate. He throws Gamora off of the cliff to get what he wants. Do I do that to people around me? Do people do that to me? Do we as members of society do that in different ways to get what we want? It's a simple straight forward question about what we sacrifice that in our own perspective is about a greater good if there is such a thing. I say it like it might not exist "Greater Good," but I mean to frame it that way because it might mean something different to everyone. In Thanos' perspective he's acquiring power. I believe no matter how many different angles a person tries to explain his actions, it's still ultimately acquiring power. This leads to the comparison of the questions I ask of myself, my friends and everyone else. What are we acquiring when we throw our loved ones out into the cold or dangle them off of a cliff so to speak? What is the motivation behind it? This means quite a bit to me because if I look at the basis of many decisions I observe, "Self-preservation," is at the root of it. Personally, I am like Thanos because I don't hesitate much when it comes to self-preservation. Probably most people don't and that is why I added my friends into the circumstance or maybe they were already there and I just mentioned it because I believe that is something that happens. It's like the original sin. In the bible, god instructs Adam & Eve to not eat from the tree of knowledge. The devil convinces Eve that god does this to deny her and Adam the knowledge that they can be like god. He tricks her in a way where the argument makes sense to her. I mean after all, he is the devil and quite persuasive. Suddenly the two become ashamed because after they defy god their shame makes them hide from him. He casts them out of paradise and Eve will experience physical pain in giving birth and Adam will forever forage and provide. When you look at this scenario, it's a story about self-preservation. God preserves paradise by casting out Adam & Eve. The devil preserves his priority in separating the humans from god by deceiving them. Adam & Eve preserve something and I just can't quite figure it out yet. Maybe it's they don't exactly preserve knowledge because they don't quite possess it yet until after they acquire it by eating the forbidden fruit. No matter how this story is described, it's basically about self-preservation in describing original sin and how man carries that burden. Now in literary form this is called a "plot hole," in which original sin is a result of disobeying god. I call it that and explain it that way because to me, there is no real way to define the suffrage of mankind by relaying a message that all suffering is because of sin. I believe much of the suffering is a result of sin, but it has a lot to do with human nature and what I am describing here in the form of self-preservation. We are made to make decisions in life and that is why we have the reasoning ability to acknowledge that. It doesn't mean we once had to make no choices what so ever and life was fine and dandy, but suddenly we listened to a serpent (sin) and he made us disobey god and that is how it all happened. No, I'm pretty convinced that some suffering is because we do sin, but a lot of suffering doesn't have much to do with us or our choices, but is a direct result of being alive in a physical world that can be treacherous and demanding at times. Think about it for a second. Adam & Eve lived without a worry, a care or concern then suddenly they were cast out of paradise and made to suffer for the rest of their life. Not only that but all of their descendance would also suffer the same fate. According to the bible if it weren't for sin, we would all live forever in paradise. Let me break it down for you to get what I am trying to discuss and perhaps provide some solution for. Paradise sounds a lot like a baby that hasn't been born yet. He or she has no cares and doesn't want for anything. A person is born and in their infancy they slowly acquire self-awareness. Eventually, they acknowledge their cold & hungry and all of the other sensations that come along with being self-aware. Eventually, we reach the age of realizing that there are things we can do to predict and take action pre-emptively to provide us with self-preservation. Now this might mean something as simple as looking both ways before you cross the street or as I am using the example here in a theatrical viewing, Thanos attacks and conquers all the planets in the universe to save it. It's quite a leap, I know, but it isn't any further than god casting Adam & Eve out of paradise. He preserves paradise and let's go of something threatening that existence. How do we do this in many ways even if we don't understand or acknowledge it? Let me use this strategy for a minute. Let's say I have an emotionally traumatic event that I experience in life and I block it out for self-preservation. My mind blocks out the memory or the event until it feels I am ready to acknowledge the event. Okay, so that day comes and I acknowledge this situation by basically having a memory. At first, I don't believe the thought is mine or belongs to me because I do not recognize it. I mean why would I? I have never had this thought before. Eventually I have this metamorphosis in mental state that allows me to accept the illusion as true. It's like Adam & Eve recalling the moment where they left Eden. Even though my mind has acted in an effort of self-preservation, I am forever scarred by the trauma of the feeling which was mostly fear & despair. This is most likely equated with the feeling of sensation or guilt. So it's guilt that I feel, even though more than likely I didn't have anything to do with the event other than witnessing it or experiencing it. Now to me, guilt is such useless sensation. There is not a lot of things you can do with guilt. It can eat at you. It can tear apart your mental state or interrupt your ability to act in a kind or caring manner towards others. Like the bible say's some of us are born with guilt and others believe we have it thrust upon us in order to keep the mythical "original sin," concept alive, but pretty much all humans probably do feel guilty in that somewhere or some time they acted out of self-preservation and eventually experienced remorse for doing so. Guilt isn't resentment though, but if a person feels guilty long enough it can morph into exactly that. This is where or what I believe creates a character like Thanos. He believes by prospect of his own standards and guidance that he is doing the right thing, but Gamora points out all the ways he is wrong about it. The moment he makes up his mind which isn't very long that he will sacrifice her for the good of all is maybe at best a split second decision. He doesn't feel any remorse or guilt until later after he has acquired the stones and returns to a place where Gamora is just a little girl. She asks, "Did you do it?" He replies, "yes." She continues with the enquiry, "What did it cost you?" Thanos replies, "everything." To me, he has this sort of melancholy attitude towards guilt and resentment. It's almost as if his justification of "balance," in the universe requires that he remain detached from his own sin. And there you have it, the makings of a sociopath. I used to think a sociopath was a serial killer or something like that, but I realized a person doesn't have to be violent to be a sociopath because the term is talking about a thought process rather than an action. Given that knowledge there sure are a lot of sociopaths in the world today. For example, I was talking to a close friend about an observation I made concerning the activity of the media and the president of the United States. Now I cannot conclude one way or another that the president is a sociopath. I am not a psychologist, so I don't know. Even if I were a psychologist they have a rule that they don't attempt to diagnose a person that they haven't examined. Okay, so calling the guy a sociopath is a bit of a stretch because I'm not a doctor and he has never been examined by me if I ever were a doctor, but I can make a unbiased observation about the things that I see. On Monday, there was media in the Oval Office interviewing the president. This is like the fourth time that this has happened where the president was saying almost incoherent and odd ball things. I wrote about the things he said at two different occasions because it really bothered me to observe a person who wasn't making sense and his subjects were like cross references to other ideas and then that is when it occurred to me that the president has cognitive dissonance. It's a mental discomfort experienced by a person who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values. This discomfort is triggered by a situation in which a person's belief clash with evidence perceived by the person. Once I started believing that might be a possibility, I started comparing the symptoms and aspects of it to the legitimate video where we have witnessed the president do this over and over again. The incoherent rambling, the inability to concentrate, the inept ability to comprehend certain ideas and the way he incessantly starts talking about something else that isn't quite connected to the current subject that is being discussed, but it's like he has this map in his mind where he gets mixed up between topics because he is disconnecting evidence to reality . I was telling my friend this and then I confessed that I felt very badly because here I was watching something so obvious and I assumed everyone can see it, but I was not labeling it what it is. I said, "We have a real chance to talk honestly about it," and added, "here we are making fun of this man and pretending we don't understand what is going on." I relented to change the subject. I've been one of the biggest critics and I felt rather badly. You see in my life, I was brought up around students who had disability because I have a hearing impairment. I know the communication challenges and recognize when someone can hear or not, but mostly I pay attention to understand if they can process information. Often times, I rephrase myself and consider if I am not communicating effectively. In this world, you meet people and they appear to be one hundred percent fully functional in every way possible, but because I have this sort exterior way of communicating where I am watching the person as they speak and I am noticing everything from their body language to what words they are using and at what tone they are speaking, I can pick up on a lot more than just the audible noise they are making. A lot of times I can determine if they are anxious or if they feel confident and sometimes I can almost in fact detect if they might be lying and I look for clues that the truth that they are conveying is more in the communication that doesn't have anything to do with speech. When I observe the president, I see the lie, but I also see that he is using the lie to cover up the bigger problem in that he doesn't know what he's talking about and it's not like the way we would do it if we were lying. If a person understands and knows what they are saying isn't true, they will perform sort of a delivery which is polished and it makes light of the subject if you catch them in a lie. They know they are lying, but they are masking it so that you won't know. The problem with this is it provides a "tell," that broadcasts to others that something isn't quite right. Most people just ignore it because they want to believe what they are hearing and that is nearly 80% of convincing someone of something that isn't true. When you observe the president and his tell, he isn't in this state where he believes or disbelieves in what he is saying because it's all made up. If it sounds kind of true, he gets rather boastful and confident about it, but then he rambles on about something else until eventually everyone loses sight of what he is talking about and that is where the real tell is. He's not distracting you from the lie, he's distracting you from being able to read him and the fact that he is in this loop of processing information. The conclusion never arrives and in the position that he is in where solutions don't always exactly meet the idea, he can continue to play the game of engagement. See for most folks, we communicate to either A) pose a question or B) provide an answer. People with sociopathic tendencies don't do this, but more they have an abstract idea of what they want you to do. They are looking for approval. Donald Trump is in way over his head and this makes him lower the standard to the least common denominator like a person with a mental health condition. It's a fight or flight mechanism. Only in his mind, he's always in a fight. He's fighting to communicate to everyone where he is coming from and there is really no better place to do this than in a board room with smart people all around the table. Negotiations aren't always fair. They are mostly about leverage. This guy has practice the Art of the Deal to cover up a much worse problem than anyone has given any thought to. It's a mental health issue. We really could talk about it in depth, but everyone would rather construe a straight forward simple observation into political differences. I'm not saying, "use the 25th amendment to remove him from office." I'm saying it's right in front of us and we have the opportunity to talk about the truth if we would only decide to do it. Criminals get off of being prosecuted for crimes all the time using the mental incapacity strategy, but this is something different. This guy doesn't know things and it's not because no one tries to explain and break it down, it's because he has a disorder. The real crime is in the people all around him who have noticed this and know the truth, but they are willing to take advantage of him to get what they want. Self-preservation, doing the good despite of the bad in a broad justification that is entrenched in resentment and shame. What we have coming out of this leadership is sociopath logical message that is disconnected from reality. That's why nothing is making any sense because it doesn't. Just think, "Fake News," and conspiracy theories. Tyrant behavior and the tweeting. Oh my god the tweeting! He's a high functioning man with a mental disorder that is debilitating to watch. All of us around this and watching this are influenced to see something different. The truth is what we're seeing isn't actually there. We are justifying whatever it is we want to believe at this person's expense. Sure, he doesn't know that people are afraid because he is the most afraid person. He's afraid that you will find out. It's not his taxes or his deals with corrupt people. It isn't even his downright racial statements. It's his cognitive state that he's putting together a performance as leader of the free world. That is an idea that he has no business attempting, but he doesn't want you to find out and most certainly the people closest to him don't want it because of self-preservation. I'm trying to find a way to wrap this up and de-escalate the hyper reaction that might provoke someone with extreme views to act on those deceptive measures. I'm not making an insult to injury plea here. I am stating that we have a large majority of issues in this world that were ignoring. At the top of the list, right in front of us every single day, is priority number one to address. People say what will happen though if we do something about it? They say violence and brother against brother hatred will result. Look if you have no faith in mankind, I understand that but let's start by telling the truth. People can relate to it. People will be relieved and then we can all move on with our lives in a healthy manner. If enough people would simply let go of their own bias and form of self-preservation, we could see this as something that affects us all. Let him finish out his term. Let a fair election decide the next leader, but without a doubt if we don't admit the truth we're all doomed to repeat this cycle for who knows how long? Mental health isn't something to be ashamed of. It's not even alarming that the president might have a problem. FDR was stricken with a disease, so was Grover Cleveland. Holy Crap! I googled presidents with a disease and there was more than ten of them. This is message is for my brethren. I know you might not agree with me. I know that it serves everyone's purpose to think otherwise, but if we were standing right like side by side and someone walked up to us and talked the way the president talks, I'm positive we would both look at each other like WTF? Having said this, I remember the outrage and the vitriol people expressed when we witnessed vulnerable members of society being mocked and made fun of by the president. I am not perfect in any way shape or form, but I assure you if I saw someone that had a legitimate disorder or disability, I wouldn't make fun of them and I am by no means writing all of this to be ironic or sarcastic. We need to take better care of each other just by acknowledging what reality is and that we understand it the same. It doesn't matter that someone has all the money or no money at all. It doesn't matter that someone has all the power or no power at all. What matters is that we're all human and that we're all susceptible to different things. If we want to live in peace, we must acknowledge that starts with us and where we go from here. "No good president, no real leader, no real patriotic American would dedicate his time and energy to insulting, dividing, tearing down and belittling other Americans. We now expect it of Trump, but the tragedy is that we are now expecting it from ourselves or our neighbors. That’s not just sad, that’s horrifying." -Ken Ripley Springhopeenterprise.com/stories/trumps-theatrics I added the quote because it's a statement about humanity. Just like Thanos was villain in a movie, Trump is character that we see on television, but knowing what you're looking at makes a big difference in understanding it. We all know someone who could be helped if we would just stop with the self-preservation and imagined how things would be better for everyone. To care for someone simply means you are willing to give up a little of your own determination to be selfish and consider how they feel or what they might experience. Otherwise you're just another sociopath.

Freedom isn't Free

With closing proximity, we are now staring directly at the blueprint behind the 2016 presidential election. In 2008 Barack Obama was elected the first African American president of the United States. It is no secret that in 2012 during the Obama re-election campaign, the integration of digital computing had its acknowledgements front and center. In a polling and data analysis program code word Orca. I won’t speculate or go into details about the 44th president’s digital media outreach campaign. All I can offer is that it mobilized voter data and gave the campaign a viewpoint to speak of where campaign targets would most likely be receptive. This is essentially an advertising mechanism that has been in the “Works,” for years. Amongst expert level colleagues and even novice beginners, data mining has been the treasure trove of politicians for quite some time. If you ever done any fund raising online, you more than likely have embraced how important it has become to capture the “Data,” of your donors. Things like First and Last name, Address and contact information. This makes it easy to keep your campaign organized in the form of thank you notices, as well as reusable lists for the future. So, my experience in all things digital has had me paying very close attention to elections. Everything from Nate Silver’s 538 which is the successful number of electorate votes to become president to small mom & pop polling sites that give the viewer insight into the inner working of the voter demographic. It’s like guessing odds at a horse race. It’s somewhat mundane in activity until election day, but the more historical data is used the easier it becomes to project outcomes. For instance, we’ve all probably saw, heard of or simply observed a reporter telling us which states Barack Obama carried in the 2008 and 2012 election. We have kind of taken it for granted that the West Coast will go “Blue,” and the Mid-West “Conservative.” We have all seen the maps with the large swath of color being “Red,” and the more highly populated or “Urban,” areas filled in blue. We’ve come to understand these things that demographically the United States, for the most part is a progressive country where we enjoy freedoms and liberties most of the rest of the world can only dream of. We understand “Pop,” culture in all its forms. We remember the revelation of MTV and Music Videos. We grew up on the “King,” of pop and “Top Forty,” hit lists of popular songs. Even Casey Kasem had a lucrative success late in his career with a “Top Twenty,” countdown. Numbers are everywhere and its almost ironic for a country filled with people who claim to have little to no knowledge about “Math,” to be dealing with numbers so much. Let me switch gears here and jump to the modern and recent revelation that the evidence is mounting that the election campaign of the 45th president engaged in some very unethical and even perhaps criminal activity. Now I say it all with the caveat that we are waiting for evidence and a final report on this activity, but all indications amount to, “Go Straight to Jail and do not collect two hundred dollars,” just like in the game of Monopoly. It’s interesting that I thought of the game Monopoly when describing the Donald J. Trump election campaign because in the game the person with the most properties win. Mr’ Trump himself claims to be a very successful “Business Man,“ that has a history of inviting the media to lay accolades upon his business empire and reality deals. For the most part, I know about him for “The Apprentice,” where he plays mostly himself and the object of the game is to win the favor of “The Donald.” His administration practice up to this point has been more or less a version of the last activity mentioned where people are pining and urging for favoritism from the president of the United States. We haven’t been the most united in the past couple of years and I have a few philosophical anecdotes about it which I will get to later, but first we must consider how we arrived at this point. The reason I started with describing the presidential campaign of Barack Obama is because to me the motives are linked. Campaigns are largely about money. Obama broke every campaign record with regards to financing in two successful campaigns and was awarded with two consecutive presidential terms. As much as any skeptic would like to point to any mention of president Obama’s success and say, “Oh, look there. Obama was the author of the digital campaign that started it all,” but there has never been any allegation or successful prosecution of an iota or speck of truth to any wrong doing. Now here is the pivotal moment and critical judgment impasse to consider in the 2016 presidential election. Barack Obama was never on the ticket, but certainly his policies after eight years of having lead the country out of a financial disaster and creating the first universal health care system in America were. Was Obama polling with approval during his preparation to leave office? I think we can honestly say he was, but you have to remember this was a man that was met with the leadership of congress saying they would do everything in their power to make him a one-term president. And so, they did. They tried anyway by blocking all but the legislation I mentioned that would be used as his legacy defining principle adjectives in a two-term presidential bid. The opposition had become known as the blockade and “Filibuster,” group. Like I said, “Obama was never on the ticket,” but his secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was. We should remember that Hillary was his opponent in the 2012 election before Barack defeated John McCaine. So, if Trump is the trigger for racism, where has it been all this time. I mean I remember that we had solved the problem of racism with the first African American president. Didn’t we? I clearly recall congress mentioning that we could shut down affirmative action programs and do away with social programs and stop trying to level a playing field that was no longer leaning in one direction or the other. I might lose you here, but in order to compress all the racially tinged subjects I’m going to make them all in one 140 character attempt like The Donald would in a Tweet: SC, Confederate Monuments, People on Both Sides, Immigrant Caravan, Hope Hicks, Emanuel Methodist Episcopal Church, L.A. Clippers, Roger Stone, NO DAPL, Florida, CNN, MAGA, the Wall and Amber Guyger. See, I didn’t even hit all the greatest hits. I just stated the ones that came to mind and have been in the news lately. I’m not going to attempt to draw a line from the beginning of the Union to 45th president. I think history will speak for itself here. What we must understand though is there is a motivation to disrupt America’s political system and one more than only one country has an interest in it. Trump’s own words – “Russia, maybe it was China,…” as he so eloquently put it. The point is somebody is going to gain if America loses. Now what is it that we’re going to lose? That is the million dollar question. That is the pig in the poke so to speak. With the rise of the modern day internet what I believe might be the most valued commodity known to man might be truth. Yes, I said it. Good old honesty. The internet is known to be a vast landscape of dark places where mostly we find conspiracy theories. Ever since the invention of the internet by Al Gore we’ve seen one conspiracy laden theory upon the other and we even have conspiracy about conspiracy like Global Warming is a “Hoax,” made up by China to destroy the American economy. My question is “If Global Warning is a hoax, made up by China. Wouldn’t they actually lose money? Providing that most everything is made in China. It’s a simple question, but there isn’t any room on the internet for common sense, so cat videos it is. That is an inside joke, but if you stay on the internet long enough, you’ll eventually get it. Like I said, "analysis is breaking something into smaller parts," in order to understand it. That would make the point that if China were to gain from our obsession with the environment, what other country would benefit from discourse in America? Saudi Arabia, you say? Russia, you say? Now the definition of Analysis is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it. I’m going to work backwards from this point to make things easier to understand. What have we learned since DJT became president? We could say racism is alive and well in America. With the idea of global dominance as a tangible goal, the Russian Government could possibly make their return to scene pre-cold war standards. In this we have the historical evidence as a motivator. Also, the finnicky ideological perspective of nationalism could possibly take hold in an already sharp political discourse if sowed right. This is my description of smoking gun. You may or not know that in any investigation one must have the evidence that a crime was committed which most rely on the death of democracy, as the scene of the crime, but without a motivation the dots held together by string theory begin to disappear. So, let us revisit where I left off describing analytics and the internet as a vehicle for a get-away route. The internet is like I previously mentioned a dark place where hooligans & hoodlums can hide in plain sight. Anonymity is the disguise of the would be perpetrators. All they would need is a cover to hide their antics. Speaking of cover, no one finds it odd that during the first two years of the Trump presidency the hactivist group that goes by the thread name Anonymous has all, but almost entirely disappeared? What we have is anonymity showing up in the form of corporations and research groups waiting to cash in on some variable that was otherwise unforeseen. What they needed was a cover that would hide their activities. As I mentioned before the Obama campaign did the footwork with years prior leveraging of vast data gathering and bringing the power of digital computing into the mainstream underneath the branding of major internet research agencies was the government’s ability to undermine its own restriction in the form of privacy laws. The patriot act took care of this where secret courts could justify secret search warrants in the name of national security. FISA or Foreign Intelligence Surveillance was used to spy on our enemies. The act has been around since 1978, but it’s true potential was realized until April 2013 when a security contractor by the name of Edward Snowden laid hands on a treasure trove of internal and top-secret data. No matter if you believe his actions were of treason or freedom protection, the secrets that got out after that were of enormous consequence. Before that we had Bradley Edward Manning or Daniel, as he was known which was convicted or court marshalled under the Espionage Act of that same year. Both instances concluded with the on-site release of Wiki-Leaks producing the documents in question and the following backlash. Now fast forward to 2016 where a hacker name Guccifer 2.0 has possession of stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee that resulted in the information security firm Crowd Strike being hired to review the severs and giving the findings to the U.S. Intelligence Committee. By now, you must admit that the U.S. appears to be in a full-on proxy war with an unknown foreign agent that seems to be pretty advanced in cyber security warfare. Are we looking at the Russian Federation or do we need to be thinking in terms of Iran or Iraq? If you remember the Middle East went through a turbulent time known as the Arab Spring. A series of pro-democracy uprisings that involved Tunisia, Morocco, Syria, Libya, Egypt and Bahrain. These nations generally began demonstrating in the spring of 2011, which led to the name. Most of the coordination and cooperation was done through the internet. The society of Muslim brothers or the Muslim Brotherhood found themselves as a political driver that over threw the government and established a democratic election of Mohamed Morsi, after the Mubarak rule. Also, the effect of these uprisings consequentially also led to the mass migration of political refugees from within regimes toward democratic countries which brings us up to Brexit or Britain leaving the European Union. On March 29, 2017 the referendum was invoked that originally was originated from the left in 1970, but was now taken over by the Far Right to leave the European Community or EC in favor of closing Great Britain’s borders. Submitting the results to Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and on the following day European Council President Tusk, stated that the UK could remain in the European Single Market (ESM) only if the UK accepted its four freedoms of movement: for goods, capital, services, and labor. By then the UK’s immigration had slowed to 100,000 per year which was down from 230,000 the previous year. The point is immigration was the subject used to demonstrate voting power in the United Kingdom. Even though immigration fell far short of intimidating numbers. All this has to do with numbers and if you recall I started by referring to math and from there I went through all of the historical events until I came to the cyber security part of discussion. I recently read a phrase this morning that described facts as pesky little things that are hard to get around and this admittance I do not disagree. I think the problem is that it’s akin to getting lost in the forest for the trees. One wrong step in the wrong direction isn’t too bad, but unless we admit and reply to some major mistakes we are indeed on the wrong path. I think most of the American voters know and understand it by the results of the last election, but how do we reach the 30 – 35 percent of voters who will absolutely never admit that they’ve been taken for a ride? Remember, I mentioned nationalism as a motivator. I also mentioned disrupting American politics. I gave you the following timeline and the key actors of each incident. What I don’t know is the mind & heart of my fellow citizens. What I don’t understand is that if we have outside agitators manipulating policy in America, how do we bring the people into the camp without insulting their mentality? It’s an effort by an large driven by fear. Fear of the unknown and fear of each other. I remember how in the eighties and nineties that although we were far from singing Kumbaya together, we at least agreed about many big things in America. One of those things that we all agreed on besides the obvious is who we’re our opponents and competition. I don’t know if you are a history buff, but I can be assured that you don’t believe Rome was built in a day. This all started with fudged math according to Housing Loans and escalated from there into a full blown financial crisis. For whatever reason, the powers that be had an opportunity to intervene and set the record straight about data that was being used for financial gain. Every step of the way, they failed to provide reconciliation for those treasure troves of data that either went missing or turned up in the wrong hands. Now I don’t have to be Economist to tell you there was definitely motivation & opportunity there. If we want to turn things around for ourselves, the first thing to admit is this isn’t “Rocket Science.” Sure, algorithms and the calculus to predict their behavior are guarded trade secrets, but on a normal scale if the balance of power falls into the wrong hands, we have the capability to correct it. One of those capabilities is to do a minute by minute, hour by hour account of who did what when. Computer Log can provide the information. I believe that investigation has been forthcoming for at least 22-23 months. No matter if the record is reviewed or the forthcoming prosecutions take shape in the public spectrum or the private and that is a very hard pill to swallow considering its tax payer money used for this. As I was saying, the reconciliation needs to be brought to light in a venue that promotes openness and fairness rather than espionage & treason. We have a right to know if a foreign power interfered in a democratic election and how they did it. We have the right to know just how mine and your own tax dollars are being spent to get to the bottom of it. Furthermore, we are justified in the right to demand accountability from our sacred institutions like the F.B.I. or the C.I.A. or whatever covert operation intelligence agency exists. Secret doesn’t mean deceit. Secret implies that our best apparatus will protect our best interest until there is a solution. Every Monday or Friday, we can expect a twitter rampage by the person who is supposed to be using his power to help and lend his service to us. I’m not feeling the “Vibe,” there. I’m not a hater, but I am a voter, a tax payer and a decent human being. I don’t consider it inconvenient to expect a higher standard. In my profession there are consequences to using shoddy ethics to accommodate a few and leaving many in need. Get real Folks, the human element of this entire thing is relevant to what people believe & practice today. There are patriots among us. There are people who commit to an entire career of service. One Game Show host is going to ruin all of that. What I’d like to see is someone from within these corporations to send out a real Technology Information Officer to explain themselves. We do it all the time. What makes the government or anyone else different?