He is still talking back to heretics, hirelings, and the Antichrist Pope. This is one of several blogs associated with Blessed Quietness Journal at www.blessedquietness.com See a list of other blogs down the right of the page.
The following documentary is very urgently needed. The gathering of our data is totally out of control, and there are NO regulations to restrain it.
I would suggest that one way to fight back is to load all sorts of nonsense and pointless comments into Facebook. Tell stories about attending absurd events and buying stupid stuff. Make the data worthless by giving the creeps a load of rubbish. Like Eat more cabbage, and do not pick your nose in public please. Jimmy Hoffa for President.
This app is hackable, and the potential is deadly. Liabilities could be coming, and racism and death threats could follow. WATCH THE VIDEO THAT EXPLAINS HOW THE HACKER CAN TAKE OVER YOUR END OF A CONVERSATION
The day is near when we will all have to decide if we still want to participate in the world at large. I can see people actually disappearing in terms of modern technology. People like Jesse Ventura don't even have a cell phone. Our politicians will never touch this thing because they are paid off by technology companies. I personally do NOT believe that social media and Internet gurus are serious about protecting users. I believe they snoop on us so much that they defend their own hacking by also defending criminal hackers. It is the same ethic that keeps the FDA protecting Monsanto from liability for Round Up. The bribes flow, and the government goes totally corrupt.
This man discuses the intentional hacking of the minds of Americans. Do YOU suffer from upside down thinking? Check out this interview:
1 Timothy 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. Haggai 1:6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
It is about time we slap down the dim bulb conspiracy against capitalism and hard work. And, I point out to you that the Apostle Paul was a capitalist long ago. 2 Thessalonians 3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. 11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. 12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
We are told by Karl Marx and his faithful disciples in the Democratic National Committee, along with AOC, the dead beat bartender from Honky Tonk City, Bronx, that capitalism is wicked and must be replaced with Marxism. They love to find a crook in business and use him to paint the whole working world of America with a broad brush of criminality.
Well, there have been honest, moral, and God fearing capitalists for many years, and here is one from Texas history to prove it.
The most provoking aspect of this hate for capitalists in America is that the Progressive Liberal Marxist Democrats in the USA belly ache about the one percenters and then buy their products and would be helpless without them. Let us all so live that, when a capitalist hater pukes up his or her (or it's) gripes about capitalism, we will be known as those who slapped their face soundly and made fools of them. UPDATED: I decided to add a Capitalist song for you. Any banana boat longshoreman in Jamaica is just as much a Capitalist as Warren Buffett. BANANA BOAT SONG
Texas has been receiving thousands of people who are fleeing California and other blue states. I want to give some advice to you who contemplate moving to Texas: First, stop at the border of Texas, find a dumpster, and throw all your Liberal Socialist assumptions in there and abandon them. Texas did not become the fine place for you to move to by doing the same idiotic things the California State Legislature and Jerry Brown Nose have been doing. When you arrive, understand that, unlike other southern states, you will be accepted by Texans in about 24 hours if you don't start whining that Texas is not nice to some entitled group. When asked when you came to Texas, the magic answer is, "I got here as fast as I could." Second, understand that Texas has only one water table, not five, like Phoenix and other southwestern states. If you decide
to turn your piece of the Hill Country, or West Texas, into a tropical garden, you will become part of a problem that one day could destroy Texas and cause you serious pain. If you want to help solve the problem, buy a 2500 gallon tank from Tanks For Less, park it under your down spout, and collect rain water. With that water you can have your tropical garden without making your neighbors mad at you.
Third, talk to Texans where ever you go. People in the northern states are terrified of talking to strangers, just like they are in large California cities. You are very safe with the people around you in Texas. If you really feel unsafe where you live, take the gun safety classes required, and get a Permit To Carry. You can then carry a weapon and feel safe. It is the patriotic thing to do in Texas, even for ladies. Fourth, stop cruising in the fast lane in the interstates. Texans do not like people who drive in the fast land because they think they can hold up traffic because they are doing the speed limit. Everyone in Texas drives over the speed limit except for one little old lady in Austin. If you like speed, take the loop around Austin, Highway 130. The speed limit is 85 MPH, and at ten over you can nearly do 100 MPH without getting a ticket. Park in the fast lane on 130, and some Peterbilt will be eating your bumper.
Fifth, do not trash Texas like you did along Interstate 15 between LA and Las Vegas. Texans do not think the sparkling broken glass, shining in the sunset along the highway, is pretty. And, our state flower, unlike California sage brush, is not a plastic Wal Mart bag.
Sixth, do not bring that wretched Bar B Que grill with you. With some of the cash you have left after buying a home in Texas, get yourself a real smoker Bar B Que, and learn to make the real thing. Once you eat real brisket, done the Texas way, you will never again put Bar B Que sauce on a piece of beef. Seventh..... Sir, if you need to pee with the ladies, or you ladies need to pee with the men, stay right where you are. Men in Texas know that their God given hardware tells them what they are, and visa versa for the ladies. My apology to you trannies in California and Connecticut for not including a photo here so that you know what you are. Unlike California schools, we do not flash filthy pictures where little kids may see them. And, our judges put people away for 20 years who try that.
Other than that, do consider this an open invitation to move to Texas. In fact, SEND MAIL, and I will try to put you in touch with a Real Estate office nearby. We are in the Hill Country, which is the best compromise between the sage brush of West Texas, and the alligators in the East Texas swamps. Also, look into living along the Gulf of Mexico Texas coast. Fantastic fishing and water sports are famous there. An occasional hurricane is a lot easier to deal with than a 9 point earthquake. MY WEB JOURNAL PAGE ON TEXAS AND, IF I OFFEND YOU, DEAL WITH IT, SUGAR VIDEO ON THE EXODUS FROM CALIFORNIA TEXAS
Here is Mr. Z's latest trick to pry into your private life and conversations. READ THE ARTICLE PLEASE There are some evasion tricks that come to mind if this patent passes and is implemented.
1. Go to a flip phone. That is my choice. I live a rather happy life without an iPad.
2. Pull the connection to your TV to the outside world. Instead, get your look at the world via the Internet. For entertainment, go to DVDs, and look at various sources for old movies and VCR videos from long ago. There is a lot of fun in this diversion.
3. Put you iPad into a box that is sound proof, and set it on vibrate so that the box vibrates. Add an electronic buzzer of some sort to the box to make noise that masks room conversation. You should still be able to hear the phone vibrate. Try a small wooden box, and set the box on a wood table to amplify the vibration. This will isolate the iPad from the TV subliminal signal.
4. Simply shut the iPad off when you have family and friends, and you don't want your conversation recorded. You can always call people back whom you miss. In case Mr. Z has a trick to turn your iPad on, put it in a sound proof container or another room.
5. Get on Amazon and type White Noise Cancellation machine into the search box. Look for THIS DEVICE. It is not a cheap model, but I believe you could find a way to use it to beat Mr. Z at his game. Using white noise right next to your phone could mask room conversation, or use noise cancellation to kill what Z is looking for.
6. There are more costly sound cancelling devices on the market that might do even better at masking sound in your home. Google for yourself, and see what they can do. Call the seller or manufacturer, and ask them if their product will mask room conversation.
7. Contact your electronics friend, and ask him to find you a way to incorporate a low-pass filter for the audio of your TV. If you can find someone who can do this for you, the high frequency signals, above human hearing, will be filtered out of the sound. This will castrate Mr. Z in his program of snooping. Watch for this sort of device to appear quickly on YouTube for DIY people.
It is time to decide whether we will sell our souls to Mr. Z and all his other tech friends. There is a point, it seems to me, where the world must simply be shut out of our lives. There are all sorts of legal and litigation issues that could come from being recorded 24/7. Mr. Z is very eager to curry favor with the US Government by telling them our secrets. Why help him as he tries to hand our souls to the Feds?
President Trump's tariff war was clearly not designed to cause a trade war, but he had to be aware of the possibility. He acted anyway, and American economic and employment pictures are greatly improved. A significant number of US companies have returned to the USA to manufacture goods. The picture today is one of many stock markets dropping in value. This is fantastic news, and the prophets of doom can stuff their pessimism in their ear. The US stock market is way too high, and this, along with the Fed playing games, may drop the market into the reality zone without a crash. READ THE ARTICLE ON MARKET PULL DOWNS WORLDWIDE Will the Chinese get the upper hand. ANSWER: NO The Chinese are the ones who benefit from no tariffs on US imports. There market place, in the US in technology and in Wal Mart, means that if they push the trade war too far, Americans will stop buying their gongs and trinkets they ship to us by thousands of ship loads every year. China does not dare play the tariff game to the extreme based on the terror of seeing the American consumer punish them for doing so. So, Trump must know this, and you can expect him to hold on course with this tariff scheme. He is absolutely doing the right thing in this. Every other nation on earth has tariffs on anything imported into their nations. The mark up in India to import an American automobile is 125%. That is not a typo. Trump is getting nowhere near the tariff levels of other nations. Americans will still buy imported goods. So, watch for this era to stay put until the Democrats win the White House one day. At that point, the Dems will drop all the tariffs, and unemployment will sky rocket, Black American will be back on food stamps, and US exports will crash. The Dems keep doing terrible things for the average American, and half of the suckers vote for them. Can anyone tell me why people do not connect the dots? We would suggest that this be the theme song of Trumps policy for trade:
Amazon has bought Whole Foods. This is well known by now. I was suspicious when this happened. Amazon claimed they would drop prices at Whole Foods to be more competitive. Bah. I checked on price changes, and they were minuscule. We have written Whole Foods off as a snob store for the filthy rich who shop by name, not be price. But, it gets worse. Amazon is now taking over product management away from its big vendors. Amazon is then charging the vendors a fee to manage the product in their own Whole Food stores. This is simply a sneaky trick to make vendors help pay the wages of store employees. Rotating products on the shelf is no trick if you pay employees enough to get really bright people. But, Amazon hires low lifes. The Whole Food employees are friendly, but under Amazon I suspect that to change to morbid. When Wal Mart started treating their "associates" like trash, the smiles and attention to detail went south. Amazon will do the same. READ MORE ABOUT THIS MESS Amazon is also eliminating sourcing from local vendors and gardeners. This was the key to the Whole Foods success, in that, the produce area had rare and unusual varieties of veggies because they were locally grown by heirloom gardens. So, it is Big Business again destroying a good thing with high browed marketing tricks. The love of money is the root of all evil. The only thing I go into Whole Foods for now are the home baked cookies and tea cakes, but I fully expect to see these disappear when Amazon finds that they can buy them cheap from Dolly Madison. This whole picture is driven by business people who do not give a flip for really good food. The modern food marketing industry is based on processed garbage and fooling the public into thinking there are no other choices. This is why you can pick up 50 brands of bread down the aisle and find soy products and high fructose corn syrup in every one of them. We have one brand here in central Texas which is really made 100% of real food and no plastic. And, it is produced right here in Austin. COSTO buys locally from healthy food producers. If that monster marketer can do it, Amazon has no excuse for cutting out local vendors. The only way to change this is to refuse to stop being picky. Complain to the main office of these companies by email online. Do not talk to store managers. Parent companies do not listen to store managers who pass on customer complaints. Withhold your business and visit farm markets in your area. For meat, buy from ranchers and farmers who slaughter their own meat. Free range egg signs are all over America on your way home from work. Stop, and buy real food. Buy bread and pastries from hole in the wall shops who promise to use organic. Or, may I dare suggest a revolutionary concept? ....... Bake your own bread. You can find a used bread machine cheap at the Salvation Army store or Goodwill. Bake your own cakes with six ingredients instead of twenty six varieties of plastic and industrial waste. It is all about things like cancer and Alzheimers. You don't have to worry about living longer, but how about living healthy right up to the end and dying during a midday nap sitting in your favorite chair, like grandpa did?
Also, be sure to stop by World Market occasionally. They do have some fantastic sales that compete with super markets. And, they have imported goodies that are hard to find. And, let us not forget Natural Grocers. They buy from local vendors for produce. They also have fantastic sales, mark downs, and clearances. They know their products and will help
you select what fits you best. Also, the hired help are not New Age snobs. They are very pleasant to this old Fundamental Baptist preacher, and for that I love them. When I walk in their store in Cedar Park, Texas, I feel like they were expecting me. It is not all bad news if you decide not to become the slave of online money grubbers. I personally shall make a prophecy here. The day will come not too far from now when super markets and many brick and mortar companies will be delivering just as efficiently as Amazon. Some company will find a way to streamline mail order delivery for these companies, and Amazon will have to upgrade their attitude or die. "Look, Mommy, there is the drone on our lawn with your grocery order." "Right, Johnny, so we can have strawberries on our ice cream for supper." So be it. For you skeptics, consider please. You will go register at Krogers with their delivery program, and they will give you one of those round disks restaurants use to tell who gets which order. They will tell you to cut a slit in your lawn right where you want the drone to land, out in the open, and slip the disk into the hole so that it is just below the surface. Voila, the drone will be assigned to land on your disk, and you will get your groceries thirty minutes after you order them online.
A merchant approaches you asking you to invest in his grocery store. He then tells you that four other people have invested $100,000 in his store. He tells you that you will get your money back whenever you want it by selling your share to some other sucker, and in the meantime, he will pay you a dividend every month. So, what do you do? Well, if you are a modern investor, the kind that invest in the US Stock Market, you will dive in and give the man another $100,000. That is why we have a Stock Market that ballooned to 27,000. In the case of the modern market, the other investors in the grocery store would be computers doing the buying of stock in the store. That is the freak we have in the Stock Market. The problem is that the corner market is not making nearly enough in profits and cash flow to pay back what has been promised. And, no one bothers to take a long look at the corner store's profit and loss sheet. Stock buyers in the US Stock Market are buying based on the expectation that the monster will keep on inhaling eternally, and they will one day sell at a big profit. This has always been the way of the Stock Market. Silly fools, bursting with hubris and greed, are buying stock as fast as companies can issue it. Anyone who has been watching for a lifetime like mine can remember that, over and over, the Stock Market has farted, thus deflating seriously. That is what is happening now. If the Stock Market goes back up to $27,000 I can promise you, based on the same exact pattern in 1929, that the Market will finally crash. It will bottom out way below what it is worth, and then it will gradually come back to represent what is really going on at the corner store in question. What will happen? Thousands of people will be financially destroyed, and a bunch of them will leap from the top floor of buildings around New York City. One of the biggest investors in 1929 "lost everything," and he jumped from the top floor and killed himself. When all his assets were zeroed out, they found he still had $10,000 to his name. That would compare to about $350,000 today. The poor fool could have fired the maid and butler, let three of his limos go back to the bank, and lived quite well on this cash until he could find a job doing some real work. Colombia University would have hired him to teach economics. So, I have no feeling for any of the idiots who play the market. It is just like going to Las Vegas. There are people who win, I will grant you. But, the vast majority end up leaving their cash in Las Vegas and trundling back down I-15 to Burbank..... broke. We lived in Yermo, California where we could sit on our lawn and see the fools lined up in a traffic jam in the middle of the Mojave Desert on any week end..... heading home broke. Every gambler, whether in Las Vagas or Wall Street, will tell you, "I have a system that works..... I always pay all my expenses. I may not make much, but overall I come out ahead." If you believe that, please contact me at once. I have five acres of Florida beach front property I will sell you. It has a great view of the ocean, free boat launching rights, great fishing, located in a tax free zone, and is pleasantly isolated from new development. It is just 200 miles east of Miami Beach. We at Balaam's Ass Speaks would like to give the much coveted Dead Skunk Award to all you who play the market along with your loser friends in Las Vegas.
You may, with red hot tears, and proffering the secret handshake of the Grand Pubaah of the Moose Lodge, beg me to give you the deep dark Himalayan secret to investing. Here it is. BUY DIRT, preferably in Texas.
Recently, my wife and I decided to avoid Wal Mart completely. The stories of their products being dangerous and trashy are common. But, what bothered us the most was the horrible way Wal Mart treats its employees, and we hate to watch as Wall Mart intentionally enters a community with the stated objective of destroying every small business in town. Well, that was only a fraction of the issues at Wal Mart. The following 22 items should help you decide if you want to help this company keep brutalizing and abusing people. READ THE LIST HERE To read many more offenses by Wall Mart, type Wall Mart Issues into Google video, and you will see many more ugly stories. Also, consider the fact that Wall Mart, because they pay so poorly and treat their employees badly, ends up with the bottom of the barrel in employees. To be fair, I have met some very decent employees at Wall Mart. But, in general, they are dull and stupid. They are also long faced from being abused. In the 1970s, when Sam Walton was expanding across America, I asked Wall Mart employees what it was like to work at Wall Mart. The answer was always exuberant and delighted. They felt important and paid well with good benefits. Today, when I ask them about working at Wall Mart, they groan and complain, or at least refuse to tell me their thoughts. I went to the department manager of the food area and asked him if he could order a chocolate bar that we had found in a different Wall Mart. He told me to call the corporate offices with my request. He said they did not listen to his advice about anything, but they would listen to me. This shows how utterly stupid the corporate scum are. A manager knows what people are asking for, and if he wants a product added it is because he can sell it. But no, they would listen to me, and my motives are totally one sided and unreliable. Thus, my personal opinion is: 1. Wall Mart is getting close to a moral and ethical point that K-Mart was at in about 1999. This is always caused by corporate leaders skimming the top off of the company books and abusing the employees. So, I believe that Wall Mart should be helped to die. Someone else will step in and do the job of big box selling, and do it right. 2. I do not trust the employees at Wall Mart. When you hire the low life of the work force in America, you get low life ethics. This is terrifying when one considers the food department in particular. And, this low life ethics comes down from the product line above. Meat processing will be done by trash labor and sick people. Farms in Mexico who supply Wall Mart will be over using weed and pest control chemicals. Now, it is your turn. Wall Mart is a social event and magnet to millions of Americans. People seem to NEED to roam the aisles of Wall Mart, a bit like going the Disneyland. The marketing people at Wall Mart design the store to be addictive. This, along with the wretched ethics of most Americans, makes sure Wall Mart will probably survive in spite of their lousy ethics. So, if you are still not sure what to do, watch the videos and decide:
Aged beef is well known to be more tender and tasty, but some of this meat is way beyond "aged". It is rotten. While it will not hurt you, it will not taste good at all. And, if you react to nucleic acid, meat this old is loaded with it.
Below, Wall Mart hamburger DOES HAVE pink slime added.
In all fairness, all the commercial hamburger you buy has pink slime added unless the label says otherwise. Pink slime has been partially cooked which means it could conceivably produce ptomaine poison if left out of refrigeration. Also, ammonia is not food, and it is added to pink slime. It would be safer to pee in your own hamburger to get ammonia if you feel the need for it. The base product of pink slime is meat trash from the meat processing area.
If you never were involved in running a service of business, the following may move you in no way at all. Most of you live for your own lusts, and if someone goes bankrupt, you figure it is all good old capitalism. Well, it is NOT. Wall Mart is a symbol of the ongoing process of raping capitalism and putting America, and much of the rest of the world, under corporate dictatorship. If you want the unemployment and rape of small businesses to continue, keep shopping at Wall Mart.
I will have to admit, I will miss some of you Wallmartians. The greatest show on earth.
So, Obama put sanctions on Russia and tried to destroy their oil and gas trade with Europe. Trump is keeping the sanctions in place because the New World Order dark government controls Trump now. But, Russia has just upped to pot, and this means they can sell oil cheaper for a very long time. “During the drilling of the Tsentralno-Olginskaya-1 well from the shore of the Khara-Tumus Peninsula on the shelf of the Khatanga Bay of the Laptev Sea, three core samples were taken from depths of 2305 to 2363 m, which showed high oil saturation dominated with light oily fractions,” the company said in a statement.
The potential of the newly-discovered deposit has yet to be verified, the company said.
“On the basis of primary studies, it can be concluded a new oil field has been discovered, the volume of the resource potential of which is increasing as the drilling continues. Core sampling continues at the moment,” a statement from Rosneft said.
Russian Minister of Natural Resources Sergey Donskoy congratulated the company on the discovery and said this could be the largest oil deposit in the RussianArctic.
Donskoy posted on Facebook.
Russia’s largest private oil company – Lukoil – is also operating in Khatanga in the Congo. Some of you history buffs will recall that, at the time Congo became independent in the 1960s, Moise Chomby declared Katanga Province an independent state. He declared himself a friend of the West and attack Communism which Mabutu, the Congo President, had espoused. The US then made sure Katanga was destroyed and returned to the Communist government. This was because the US wanted to grab the copper and uranium in Katanga. Pat Robertson also wanted to buy a diamond mine in Katanga. Well, Russia is taking the harvest now in oil. Something about the best laid schemes of mice and men. And, who are the mice? The CIA.
Lukoil has been developing the Eastern Taimyr sector. The area’s coastal resources are estimated at 4.5 million tons of oil, 9.3 billion cubic meters of gas and 0.5 million tons of condensate.
All around, I would say Russia is in no danger of going bust in foreign income. This means the CIA will be working overtime to try to assassinate Putin. And, what is the USA doing to keep ahead of Russia in the prosperity index? HERE IS THE LATEST POOP ON............. NYC POOP.
So, we can now call Charmin, and we can poop our way from Kennedy Airport to the Hilton Hotel. Or, we can catch the honey wagon in Manhattan and flush in Flushing. I bet the Russians don't have a mobile poopmobile like ours.
Depending on the make and model of your automobile, you may have killer air bags that could spontaneously explode and maim or kill you. READ THE ARTICLE HERE Takata knew what was happening, and they sold the deadly air bags anyway. You need to check this list of cars which installed Takata air bags. Do not think that only low value cars have these wretched killing air bags. Even Ferrari bought and installed them to cut corners on cost. SEE IF YOU CAR IS ON THE LIST If your car was on the list, call a dealer at once, and ask what arrangements there are to replace the air bags. They should do it free since the bags could kill you, and the civil suit potential is enormous. If they will not replace the bags free, you need to sell your car and buy one that is not on the list.
Glyphosate, also known as Roundup, is being used so heavily by farmers that the food we eat is laced with doses over a thousands times more than the safe amount allowed by the FDA. The media is not covering this story, and the FDA is not stopping this. This tells us that both the media and the FDA are being bribed to look the other way. One reason for this is that Monsanto employees, when the retire, are quickly hired by the USDA and the FDA. The visa verse also applies. Judge Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court is a former Monsanto employee. So the deck is loaded against we the people. HERE IS THE PREMIER STORY ABOUT THIS Check the links in the story to learn more. Farmers are either gullible, or they know Roundup is poisoning and changing the food we eat, and the farmers do not care if they kill us. There is no longer an ethic in farming like there was 70 years ago. Furthermore, Con-Agra knows what they are doing to the food, and they too do not care if they kill us. We have two friends, a father and son, who are both farmers. They used Roundup on corn for several years, and they are both now fighting emphysema and looking at possibly dying of cancer. You need to seriously consider buying organic food. We hear people claim they cannot afford it. Well, what can you afford? A lot of slick technology toys? A new car? What are you trading for your health by eating non-organic foods?
If the ransomware running wild around he world does not go away soon, some big institution will go down, and the world will panic. We are talking about the New York Stock Exchange, Verizon, VISA, Bank of America, Chase Manhattan, or a whole department of the US Government. If Social Security, the Treasury Department, or the IRS gets shut down a storm of misery would be set loose. The problem with the US Government is all the agencies which run on old software and old versions of Windows because they have old systems. Also, some large organizations are fearful of security updates because they can cause trouble loading. Russia, India, and China are having the most sorrow with Wanna Cry ransomware because so many of them use pirated versions of Windows. They cannot upgrade from Microsoft with their stolen operating systems, so they are having a retribution moment.
The photo shows a digital bill board in Bangkok that was impacted by Wanna Cry. The new version of Wanna Cry is infecting 3600 new computers an hour, or 86,000 a day. This is not going away. It has been shown that Wanna Cry can move from computer to computer. VIDEO DEMO HERE This makes Wanna Cry potentially contagious and able to infect millions of computers unless it is stopped. This fact is why I am doing this blog post. There is no one at the controls of this virus.
White hat hackers tell us there is a code similarity in a previous North Korean hack and Wanna Cry. Kim may be behind this trick. And, the next ransomware is on the way, and active, called Uiwix. It is worse than Wanna Cry, and it can be blocked by shutting off SMB READ HERE WHAT TO DO Here's the list of simple steps you can follow to disable SMBv1:
1. Go to Windows' Control Panel and open 'Programs.' 2.Open 'Features' under Programs and click 'Turn Windows Features on and off.' 3.Now, scroll down to find 'SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support' and uncheck it. 4. Then click OK, close the control Panel and restart the computer.
The next phase, if this attack becomes universal, would be for companies and government departments to close down in self-defense. Banks would do the same. The critical mass point is unknown for such a situation. It will happen when someone panics in high places. President Trump is impulsive and unpredictable, so a man like him could start worldwide panic in institutions and companies. Europe has some loose cannons among their leaders who could push the panic button.
If this happens, banks could be ordered to close to protect deposits and prevent a banking crash that would cripple the nation for months or years.
Young British hero tech who found the kill switch in version 1 of Wanna Cry software. Wanna Cry is really more of a heads up for the world. It is largely caused by people not updating, AND opening unknown sourced email. Prudent connectivity discipline will almost guarantee you will not get the malware. If you are on a network, and if someone on it is unprotected, they could get it and give it to everyone on the network.
I have no idea how to tell you when critical mass has been reached in this sort of crisis, and it IS a crisis never before experienced by the world. There is NOW a sense that things are out of control as the hackers are rewriting the code of the hacking software to prevent government techs from making a kill switch for the thing.
The secondary possibility is that some rogue nation will use this crisis to add their own cyber attack on top of the present one. This would be purely for sabotage purposes.
What should you do if you hear that some big bank has been hacked and shut down? If this does not happen this time, it is only a matter of time before a big bank is toasted by an attack.
If you have money in the bank, immediate withdrawals may be your only hope to get any of it out. Get to an ATM machine at once..... don't wait for a second opinion. There is a sense in which no one out there knows anymore about what to do than you do. Take out the maximum you're allowed from the ATM. Go back to the ATM the next morning when it opens to get more cash out. Also, make a serious withdrawal from your bank account while you are there.
Next, gas-up your car(s) while credit and debit cards still work. Tank-up all vehicles and any gasoline storage containers you have.
When the bank opens the morning after you feel the crisis is at critical mass, calmly go there and get a few thousand out to tide you over.
You need to have enough cash on-hand to buy food and fuel for a month or two.
If you turn out to be wrong, and the cyber attack is defeated, you can put the money back in the bank next week if you want. No harm done.
If you cannot get cash, do you have enough food on-hand to feed yourself and your family for a month or two? If you cannot get cash soon enough for your feeling about things, go to the supermarket, and buy up supplies for survival using a credit card. That means non-perishable food items and canned food and paper products. After you hit your card two or three times close together, your card may be blocked. Have cash with you also.
If you have prescriptions that need filling, DO IT NOW. Is there someone who depends on you to keep their life in order? If so, plan for them also.
What will you do if supermarkets get hit and can't sell food. What if Banks close and supermarkets can only take cash because they cannot process credit or debit cards?
If the crisis drags out, and if the Government closes banks, or if Government departments start shutting down, forget paying your bills. This is survival. Those with cash will survive. Those without, will riot, steal and kill for food.
This last instruction was based on the possibility that the hackers go into a war of attrition in which they are seeking more than cash. This is in the event that someone is trying to crash the world, or one particular nation, for pathological reasons.
Do not believe the US Government will rescue you. They are the ones who invented the hacking software and let someone steal it from them at the NSA. We are dealing with people in Washington DC who are mentally and morally defective in the extreme. They are too lazy and too dumb to solve something this big, and you are gullible if you think they care about you.
THE REA L CULPRIT IS THE US GOVERNMENT FOR HORDING VULNERABILITIES Proverbs 6:6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: 7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, 8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. 9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? 10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
LESSON LEARNED:
Never let a crisis go to waste. Write down all the factors of Wanna Cry, and ask yourself, "What do I need to do to be ready for the 9 point computer earthquake coming soon?
The high ranking men, and Vladimir Putin, must be chortling and chuckling about this story. THE STORY IS HERE It must also be noted that Donald Trump's dream of returning manufacturing to America could result in a serious breakdown of quality in manufacturing. We mock at the Chinese for some of the defective toys they send us, but this multi billion Dollar high tech dud is dead in the water. This is the high end of American production, and it is a crock. What if this happened while the ship was in a combat situation in the Middle East. It would be toast in very short order. The Donald will have quite a task trying to convince the drunk pedophiles who run American corporations to again develop quality control standards that match Russia and China.