<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hey there,<div>I don’t know about you guys but myself and it appears every Rogers business and residential customer across the country have not been able to receive or send out calls, nor have they been able to text other Rogers customers.</div><div>This apparently started at midnight last night our time zone and is still out.</div><div><br></div><div>To have this long of a disruption right across the country smells like a hack or ransom ware. To have it start at midnight on a Sunday night gets me leaning toward ransom ware. I imagine that the unknown criminals would tell Rogers if they don’t pay by Midnight Sunday, they’ll shut down the Rogers system. Rogers called their bluff and Bob’s your uncle!!</div><div>The system has been down way to long for it to be some provincial transmission problem. It has to be a computer related cross country issue.</div><div><br></div><div>Is it a big player like the Chinese Gov. who have wanted Canada to go with their 5 G player, and already have no love or respect for us?</div><div><br></div><div>Even if I am wrong, it still surprises me that Western governments have not gotten together and decided that private enterprises have not developed a safe internet for governments and big business to entrust their dependency on, and that a new and safe internet skyway needs to be brought about where no unknown entities can get access to all the customers.</div><div><br></div><div>I know big corporate lobby groups don’t want governments to try to tame the Wild West, but national security interests demand that the internet must become immune from attack.</div><div><br></div><div>Meantime, Bell must be loving this disruption to their biggest competitor, and the longer it goes, the more customers may decide to slide over to Bell. On the other hand, Bell may be nervous, because if it is a hack, they are bound to be next and subject to an even <br>bigger ransom demand.</div><div>Good thing I still have a home phone!</div><div>Take care,</div><div>Basil<br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 18, 2021, at 1:43 PM, Arthur Blomme via craic <craic@lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p>Hi Bob <br>
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<p>You have cherry picked your reading of Mercola. Mercola is a
proliferate author of natural health and comments on peer reviewed
papers of many other medical professional who have been
excommunicated by big pharma. He provides references making it
easy to fact check his work, which is more than i can say for the
quasi journalists who give us our daily news. <br>
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<p> I do not agree with his political frame of reference but admire
his courage for standing up to the antics of the World Economic
Forum and their cronies. He mistakenly makes socialism equivalent
to Technocracy. Read Technocracy instead of socialism. If you
fact check his information you may be less likely to associate him
with Ayn Rand. <br>
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<p>Blockchain is the encryption method used in cryptocurrency. i am
not sure what you mean by bloated blockchain in this context. <br>
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<p>Be Well <br>
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<p>Art<br>
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<p>On 4/17/21 11:26 a.m., Rob Anderson via craic wrote:<br>
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Follow up to the Mercolas missive and the recent Ford shut down.
Here’s a better article about some of the poor leadership we have
had on the local front.<br>
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<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Of course,
I am concerned about the experimental vaccination
formulas, the profit windfall for big pharma, the
overreach of the corporate media self-interest, Wall St.
hucksters, big banks, the enormous reach of mega tech, the
power of large corporations and big governments from China
and Russia to the USA and even Canada. But my concern
with the Mercolas thinking is that it creates a “bloated
blockchain” of complex issues that all get jumbled
together in one gigantic ideological pot of stew, a kind
of pile on that distorts the immediate issues by resorting
to an intensely overcharged perspective. It wasn’t long
into that Mercola letter before the big communist red
scare theory with a twist of Ayn Rand dominated the
argument with how all our freedoms are at stake as we
drift toward communism.</span></div>
<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I think it
would be a far better exercise for these folks to hold off
on the cluster of conspiracies and do a “put on the hat of
the Premier” exercise. Here too I think this is a
necessary exercise because contrary to the Mercolas
letter, Ford on the flip side of the coin wants to blame
each of us as individuals for not stepping up in this
crisis. The one blames with speculative assumptions about
vast conspiratorial social and political agents while the
other blames individuals for our mess.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">In both cases,
we take our eyes away from what, in this case, the Govt of
Ontario should have been doing all along. We clearly see
that the major problem in </span></div>
<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Ontario is
the lower income population that works in more hazardous
working </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">conditions.
Even Ford knows this. Schools, while presenting a modest
risk, are not the central problem and certainly parks
aren’t. Paul and others will certainly disagree with me
about schools. Nevertheless, shutting everything down
isn’t the answer. Creating more fear and then policing
the general population is going to generate a major crisis
in confidence with this Ford government. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">The big
conspiracy analysis that focuses on partly true but often
nebulous conspiratorial speculation and the “small c”
analysis that places the problem squarely in the laps of
individual failures allows Governments such as Ontario to
blur the picture regarding their failures to play the
chess game with any intelligence and certainly without any
anticipatory thinking 3-4 steps ahead.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">That is why my
view is to hold off on the big philosophical narrative for
a bit and put on the Premier’s hat. What would I do?
Right now, today. Not who would I blame. At this point,
right wing blaming of China, the big banks etc. doesn’t do
much in the immediate circumstance.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">For my part,
and I wrote about it a couple of months ago, I would not
have closed schools, but I would have heavily supervised
factories, warehouses, meat packing plants and
construction zones to ensure compliance with Covid safety
regulations. I also would have ramped up vaccinations for
these workers. Instead, the various right wing and left
wing media and government fear campaigns about everything
from the vaccines to playgrounds have driven groups such
as many in the workaday immigrant and black communities in
the GTA to fear vaccinations. And now, the very people who
are most vulnerable trust no one. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Both Mercola’s
big train approach blaming a vast array of others and
Ford’s it all up the individual responsibility or we will
punish you approach de-energize people at a critical
juncture as we try to determine the immediate way forward.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">It’s not a
bird or a plane...it’s actually a very weak government
whose policies are all over the place instead of focusing
on the actual areas where the outbreaks are clearly
evident. Let’s turn our attention to the specific issues
at hand and see if we can find a sensible way forward that
addresses the critical issues associated with controlling
this pandemics. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">But I am
afraid that more and more people are going to be joining
the Mercola crowd who have decided to couple conspiracy
theories with the vaccination. </span></div>
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<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">In any
event, my May 1st call for a summer respite before the
next wave looks like it has gone up in smoke and mirrors!</span></div>
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<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Bob</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><b>Subject:</b> <b>Here’s an article that
makes sense....Government ineptitude. Most
of Canada is in a punishing third wave. How did it come
to this? - Macleans.ca</b><br>
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