Disconnect

This is one of the first blog postings where I do not know where to start. So many alternative sentences and analogies to kick things off! Jeremy Clarkson's hysterical car reviews in The Times often start with a brilliant (off topic!) preamble, before he knuckles down for some laddish talk.

OK, let's try this one: You were right!

One of the key early drivers of the Internet, other than porn and online product information was it's ability to allow those with wobbly minds to easily and affordably publish their theories and conspiracies using a medium that became increasingly easy to access. I am sure some of you have come across them - many featuring mid 90s style html with flashing links and pictures of bug eyed aliens of the Whitley Strieber variety. Even more such sites popped up after 9/11.

(FYI, unless convinced someone may be onto something, I steer clear, preferring to source my knowledge from science publications or public engagement.)

All said, if you do throw that many darts at the board, even if unskilled, you'll eventually hit the bulls eye. Further, if you do in fact know what you are doing, then with less darts, you'll still hit the bull.

The revelations by Edward Snowden (recently added to my 'Heroes' page) that the NSA and other agencies have not only been spying on you, but also archiving just about everything you have done, stored and said in cyberspace and on the phone, generated approximately three responses across the media and blogosphere:

1. That's cool, it will protect us from the bad guys. I have nothing to hide. I am perfect!
2. I knew it! So my detractors were wrong, we really are all being monitored 24/7.
3. What?!! I feel betrayed. Shoulders dropped, I am but a mere powerless pawn in the grand scheme of things and have no connection to the truth or reality, unless there in person.

Betrayal is the word here. A sense that the very people on our side (whoever 'our' is) had collected information and could not no longer be trusted caused one to lose faith in all institutions, not just the banks and other nefarious entities. Quite simply, there is no one to trust, to believe, to rely upon as one's rock - beyond family, best friend and/or God. (This extends to my still yet to be completed mega post entitled '2+2=5', that discusses the huge amount of disinformation and cover ups by special interests, in particular in the carbon energy, processed food and pharmaceutical industries.)

Just two days ago, what some of us has always believed (no conspiracy theory, just 'plane' obvious) was potentially vindicated, namely that Pan Am Flight 103 was not brought down by Libya, but in fact Iran.

The reasons for this kind of cover up are of course to maintain the complex geopolitical balance that makes the world continue to spin relatively smoothly, and hopefully, not go wobbly. IE, allow us to continue to obtain our nasty carbon fuels from people we don't really like, but have to do business with.

No matter, the point is that we're being spoon fed porkie pies. And the spoon feeding is so ingrained into the system that when a modern aircraft goes missing, all that technology that is used to monitor us 6' tall squidgy organic things cannot locate it after almost a week.

Or to put it more transparently, someone knows where Flight MH370 is, but isn't telling, because that would upset the geopolitical apple cart. What's inside the apples is now further down the news headlines.

It is even possible that those who don't want the aircraft found too soon are responsible for it's demise, but we'll let time tell, for that does tend to be the best teller of truth.

Another example of how disconnected and lacking in control we are is when it comes to communications, in particular trying to reach an organisation or individual by telephone. Tried calling the HMRC in the UK? Or how about a specific individual or support line at Google? Good luck! If you call the UK's BT (telecommunications provider) because your Internet is not working, you'll get a recorded message to say something like "Don't forget, you can get more help online at www.bt..." etc. Really?

Flight back club: Be omnipresent?

It's time that you were going
And there's no way of knowing
How long we'll be apart
Wherever life may lead you
Remember how I need you
Keep our love locked in your heart, ^wo-oh, wo-oh

Jet plane flying high above me
Don't stay away too long
Come back darling, say you love me
Don't stay away too long
Tell me you'll be thinking of me
Each time you hear this song

We'll love again, some other day
Don't stay away too long^^

I miss you every minute
My world without you in it
Is such an empty place
When days bring rainy weather
As long as we're together
There is nothing we can't face

Rep from ^ to ^^ twice more
- Peters & Lee