Post (11): My Online Presence

 

Social Media has played a big role in my life since I was a really young kid. I remember begging and begging my mom for a Facebook until she finally just gave in so she didn't have to hear my mouth anymore. Social Media was the way my friends and I stayed in touch because any of us rarely had phones, but we did have the family computers.

Right now, I currently use Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, and LinkedIn. On most of these websites, I have just my phone number and my one of my spare email accounts. If you look at my social media account then you can probably just find out what I look like, when my birthday is, what school I go to, and not that much more. But, when I think about it, that is still enough information for somebody that is stalking my page or something of the sort. But, most of the time, the only reason they would find these things out is because of somebody else saying happy birthday to me or something of the sort.

If I give out my real email then it is only because I am buying something on sites like Amazon or eBay. But that is just so that they let me know when my package is coming and where it is at.

I feel that social media will only make you feel isolated, lonely, or depressed if you allow it to overtake you. When you disconnect from the actual world and so absorbed in the digital world that if something goes wrong on your phone then it can influence your whole mood and demeanor.

Post (10): EOTO 2

 

False Flag is an operation in which the act of intentionally disguising the source of responsibly, and blaming it on a secondary party. This term is mostly used by conspiracy theory promoters in accordance to the government and covert operations. Originally, the phrase, "false flag", was used for the practice of pirate ships flying the colors of other nations to deceive other ships, such as those of merchants, into thinking that they were dealing with friendly people. The pirates would usually show their true colors just before the attack, but the wrong flag would sometimes continue to be flown during the attack, because they would forget to change it, and thus the term "attacking under false flag." But, overtime the term "false flag" came to be applied to any covert operation that put the responsibility of their wrongs on another party. For example, the case with the 1953 Iranian Coup.

In November of 1939, the Russian village of Mainila was attacked by an unknown party. The village was fairly close to the border with Finland, and the launch attack was used as an excuse to break the pact that was made with the Soviet Union for non-aggression with the country and launch an invasion into Finland. This was later known as the 'Winter War'. It was eventually concluded by both British and Russian historians that the shelling of the village was a false flag operation carried out by members of the NKVD.  Throughout the war, false flag operations were continuously executed, but mostly can be considered in the old sense of the word. Another false flag operation, one of the most famous of World War II,  was the raid on the French drydock of St, Nazaire. British commandoes managed to float an explosives-laden old Royal Navy destroyer made to look like a German torpedo boat close enough to the harbor to destroy all key structures in the the port according to the detonator's will. After the war, the United States and Great Britain joined forces and organized false flag operations during the 1953 Iranian Coup.

False flag can be used in instances other than war as well. For example, during a mass school shooting investigation in Parkland, there was talk that the person that shot the school up, David Hogg, was accused of being a "crisis actor" and that the shooting was a staged hoax to undermine gun rights.